Forgetting English
This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries.
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The Last Book We Loved: Part Two
The Rumpus presents the second installment of an index to “The Last Book I Loved” Series.
Besuboru Bromides
from the collection of John Gall John Gall is the art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He’s also the man behind the Nabokov Collection and the blog Spine Out.…
A Uniquely Literary Holiday Party (In San Francisco)
The winter is cold and dark and your fingers turn blue. Money is scarce. Mornings are the worst of all. Some of us get lonely. We reach for the bottle…
The Undefinable Genre Of Science Fantasy
“Felicino: I thought writers were the least reliable guys when it comes to define what they’re writing. And most of them don’t really care. Gio: Well, as a reader and…
The Letters Of Van Gogh Restored And Revisited
“In its capaciousness, the book also reminds us of a fundamental truth about Van Gogh: his ambition as a painter depended on words to give it focus and direction. We…
Assisted Discipline
From a tool as simple as a stopwatch to something called Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die, Meghan Ward has posted a collection of “Gadgets to help you write.”
Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint
In a time of twitter novels and short stories laid out a 140 characters at a time, Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, is going in…
Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella…
The Chess Set in the Mirror
Illustration by STO for Bontempelli’s Chess Set in the Mirror (1922)
DFW’s Grammar Challenge
“IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO AVOID OR REPAIR CLAUSES LIKE THE FOLLOWING, YOU SHOULD, IN MY OPINION, THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH…