The Chess Set in the Mirror
Illustration by STO for Bontempelli’s Chess Set in the Mirror (1922)
Features & Reviews
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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…
(Large) Stocking Stuffer?
Rumpus books editor Andrew Altschul‘s first novel, Lady Lazarus, is on sale for an obscenely low price this holiday season: for less than $7 (with shipping) you get the mint-condition…
The Rumpus Interview with Poetry Rock Star Eileen Myles
“Waste is good, important. Especially in art. It’s not the perfectly placed and chosen object that rules. It’s a pile of things and one might catch your eye but its…
“Baywatch,” “Short People,” and “Saving Wasted Breath”
Three poems by Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, have been posted over at The Awl. Give ’em a read. (via @R_Nash)
Larry Is Also Troubled By a Bear
“Composed as a series of vignettes, pivotal moments in a troubled man’s peripatetic life, the narrative flits within the gray area between poetry and prose and, while it dispenses with…
Fog Is Also Good for This
Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.
A Disarming Post-Adolescent Intensity
“His prose may often rest on a banality (“we like to feel superior to others. But our problem is that we’re not superior”) but his inner turmoil over such bland ideas,…
The Last Book I Loved: Await Your Reply
Await Your Reply moved me because it is a novel that tells the tale of a few people searching for identity while leaving old ones behind.
Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children’s Books of the 30s and 40s
1948, Apoutsiak, written and illustrated by Paul Emile Victor
The Rumpus Interview with McSweeney’s Publisher Oscar Villalon
“These things, writing and reading, are never, I don’t think were ever, ever meant to be exclusive from anything else. I think they were always meant to be part of…
“Some Contemporary Characters”
Rumpus columnist Rick Moody‘s new story, “Some Contemporary Characters,” is being tweeted by Electric Literature in what they describe as a “new venture in microserialization©.” The story started today, and…