Drew Johnson: The Last Book I Loved, The House of Hunger
‘A writer drew a circle in the sand and stepping into it said “This is my novel,” but the circle, leaping, cut him clean through….’ —from The House of Hunger…
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Salvage Artist: The Rumpus Original Combo with Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I like to go where the life is. I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. I’m of the people in…
An Extra March to Fetch the Year Around
Thoreau’s Journal is forthcoming in a new edition from NYRB Classics, abridged by Damion Searls; the Quarterly Conversation’s Geoff Wisner has given a favorable and interesting review of the book:
Gladwell Agonistes
I’m not sure why Malcolm Gladwell‘s fourth book, What the Dog Saw, which collects 19 of his New Yorker essays, has been the one to incite a riot of review-essays.…
The Rumpus Interview with Robert McKee
Robert McKee is best known to the world in two ways: as the guy who teaches the popular STORY seminar in Los Angeles and around the world to would-be screenwriters,…
Portnoy’s Complaining Again
I’m not sure why Philip Roth seems so concerned about the future of the novel; perhaps because he’s about to die, he thinks the novel should go with him? Or…
The Hurricane and the War
A new book about a soldier who murdered his girlfriend examines the similar traumas of combat veterans and Katrina survivors.
Notable New York, This Week 11/16-11/22
This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis…
A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster
I don’t know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn’t have to.
The Caged Bird Speaks
The Guardian has a pleasant, long profile of Maya Angelou running in which she proclaims such niceties as “I’m fine as wine in summertime.” The profile covers many topics: giving…
Cormac’s Pretty Interview
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Jurgensen has a wonderful interview with Cormac McCarthy up on their website. In it, they gab about the difference between movies and books, which pertains…
Ceasefire Liberia And The Promise of the Internet
Going through the book blogs every week, I read a lot about how the Internet is ruining everything — from publishing to our attention spans to investigative journalism to our…