Features & Reviews
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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…
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Guilt
“If I miss writing a day, ‘cause I write every day, Sunday, holidays, birthdays, deaths, everything, I write. About 500 words. And, if I don’t do it, I feel very, very, very guilty. […] But if I write, and even…
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“…born of nameless nightmare parents”
“My father was consumed by my mother as soon as he had fertilized her and she, in her turn, was eaten by myself at my birth. That is my first memory, as it happens. Squirming my way out of my…
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Notable SF, This Week: 12/28-01/03
This week in San Francisco, experience music the old fashioned way at Shellac Shack and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra’s free home show. Also plans for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day: Monday 12/28: Remember vinyl? Stop by Shellac…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/28/09-1/03/10
This week in New York The Poetry Project holds its 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading, Ludacris and Sandra Bernhard perform, 92Y hosts a New Year’s Hustle Bash, swing takes Manhattan at the Holiday Swing Ball and at…
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Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood Get Evangelical
At a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel.
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The Rumpus Holiday Internet Roundup
‘Tis the season, so we’re taking a day or two off. Here are a few wonderful things from around the web to keep you busy (don’t worry, we’ll be back):
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The Last Book I Loved: Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovah’s Witness whose voice grows like his first lone pubic hair…
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David McConnell: The Last Book I Loved, The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
I’m always hunting for great nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century histories. Something about those rolling, periodic sentences, the lofty diction, the Olympian “great man” narratives gives the books an air of eternal authority I love. Compared to them, recent popular histories…
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Lie to Me
The latest memoir of the 2008 Presidential campaign is a fake book about fake events by a fake political operative.
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The Gift of Education
“Now Valentino’s school is beginning to operate in the town of Marial Bai — a modern high school serving students from thousands of square miles. It had a soft opening earlier this year with 100 students, and he is hoping…