Kati Standefer: The Last Book I Loved, The Lake
The first time I read The Lake by Daniel Villasenor I was fifteen, crunched into the backseat of our tiny family Chrysler and on my way to Georgia. I’d plucked…
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From the Department of Possibly Lost But Nevertheless Immensely Worthwhile Causes
In all the understandable uproar about the impending disembowelment of the literary magazine TriQuarterly, I haven’t yet seen a suggestion that readers and writers try to do something about the…
Banned Books Week
According to the American Library Association there were “at least 513 actual and attempted book bannings in the US in 2008.” At the top of the list? And Tango Makes…
Mash-Up Money
Seth Grahame-Smith is best known for his mash-up novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and its follow up Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters. Well Lincoln Michel wants the world to…
Hans Kulla-Mader: The Last Book I Loved, The Magicians
I love magic. Be it imagining myself wandering the hills of Narnia or riding a rickety boat on Earthsea’s fog ridden waters—I just want it so bad. I want to…
The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The characters in Tao Lin's work drink smoothies, use g-chat and steal, all with equal gravity, or lack thereof.
Dead Men Tell No Tales?
Kurt Vonnegut, C.G. Jung, William Styron, and Michael Crichton all have books coming out in the next few months. They’re also all dead. From Vladimir Nabokov to David Foster Wallace,…
John Dies at the End
An expanded on-line novel aimed at the teenage-slacker demo offers one too many penis jokes and pop-culture shout outs.
Changes at TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly, once called “perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction” by the New York Times, will no longer exist as a “printed product” next year. Unfortunately this does not mean…
Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4
This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and…
Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s your humble Sunday guest editor back in the hot seat again for another wild ride through the bookblogosphere! Today is special to me because the Folsom Fair will be…