Features & Reviews
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/4-1/10
This week in San Francisco: Jason Meyers’ new book, “The Mission” is released in the Haight, Jose Arenas and Phillip Hua encourage you to choose your own adventure at the opening of their show American Pastiche, and Improv Everywhere encourages…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/04-1/10
This week in New York The New York Times’s Arts and Leisure Weekend features Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, and Jimmy Fallon, Sweetgrass opens at the Film Forum, Carol Sklenicka discusses Raymond Carver, the films of Joyce Weiland screen at Light…
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15 Words Officially Banished, Including Tweet, Bromance
Last summer, we had a discussion here at The Rumpus about the worst words ever. Well, it turns out that for the last 35 years, Lake Superior State University has been doing even more: a “List of Words Banished from…
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Julianna Baggott on “the Invisible Prejudice”
“What are the best books? The answer is always subjective, and I’m not a literary arbiter. But the message I received from this year’s lists was painfully familiar. It forced me to explain to my students — the next generation…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings, Rumpusers. You might have been relieved to see me go for a bit, but you had to know you couldn’t get rid of me forever. I’m back from a life-alteringly excellent trip to Los Angeles, where I finished school,…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
I’ve been away for what seems like an eternity, as many of you have been, but here we are, in a new decade, back from the abyss. Here’s some of what we’ve missed here at Rumpus Books.
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Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.
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2009 Over and Out
These images come from Maria Rosa: Everyday Fun and Carnival Frolic with Children in Brazil by Vera Kelsey, illustrated by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari. I’m working with a 1942 US edition, but I imagine there are many editions from…
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Found in Translation
Open Letter Books has only been around for a year and has only published 16 titles, none of which have sold more than 3,000 copies. Yet the small publishing house has found its niche publishing “nothing but literature in translation,”…
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The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
Putting together this post of Estonian children’s books, I found myself squirming with delight and confusion. I hope something similar happens to you when scrolling through it!
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Le Guin Resigns
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of “21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation,” has resigned from the Authors Guild because of the organization’s…
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Photocopied and Stapled
I’m not sure if 2009’s quality crop of zines was a reaction to the sad state of print media, but it would hardly surprise me if that was indeed the case. Through casual observation, a thumb-through of the Microcosm Publishing…