“C-A-P-P-U-C-C-I-N-O”
Rumpus New York Bureau Chief Rozalia Jovanovic has published a subjective account of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses‘ spelling bee: “James Frey, Ben Greenman and Maira Kalman Spell…
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So I’m Guessing There’s No Second Edition
A charming find on eBay: a 1927 guide on How to Play the Cinema Organ published at the exact moment that talkies were about to rub out the profession. The…
The Rumpus Interview with Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple is an artist, model, entrepreneur, and one-woman pen-and-ink revolution. She’s probably best known as the founder of the worldwide burlesque life drawing phenomenon, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, which…
Bolaño, Inc.: Moya Contrasts the Myth with the Man
Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Senselessness and eight other books, has written a piece about the “construction of the ‘Bolaño myth’ in the United States” that contrasts this myth with the man…
A Window’s for Looking Into
Robin Ekiss’s debut collection of poems explores the relationship between the past and the present with strength, clarity, and emotional intimacy.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/2-11/8
This week in San Francisco, the annual Dia de los Muertos procession, get Mortified at The Makeout Room, the self-proclaimed “hardest working artist in San Francisco” will be showing at…
The Last Book I Loved: A Complicated Kindness
I ran away to Barcelona because of a girl. Also I’d been grumpy and mopey for the previous month or so, due to the whole uncertain future thing, so really…
Notable New York, This Week 11/2 – 11/8
This week in New York, Performa 09 festival of performing arts inspired by Futurist film, music and literature opens, Bomb throws a Fall Issue Launch Party, Books & Quiche Reading…
On the Importance of Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling
A couple of years ago the memoirist and fiction writer Chris Offutt urged me to read Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling, first published in 1966. As promised, it was the…
The Internet Is Making Me Illiterate
There’s been a lot of talk lately on the book blogs about what the Internet is doing to our ability to read, and not surprisingly, no one wants to speak…
Maud Newton on Eve
“God excoriated Eve more roundly and punished her more severely than He did Adam not because she was more wicked, but because she represented an actual threat. Seeking knowledge, she chose to…