American Short Story Writers Are Taught To Do It Wrong
John Barry has a piece up at The Baltimore City Paper in which he argues that too many American short story writers are taught to try to mimic that famous…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are full of awesome this week. You should read them. How to write to an editor: “I have given your request for evidence 23 hours of thought,…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed three novels and a collection of poems. Come read!
The Last Book I Loved: Carpenter’s Gothic
William Gaddis is one of those writers I’ve been hearing about for years, a writer’s writer of difficult but rewarding fiction, a post-modern master. The Recognitions is considered his masterpiece,…
Rooms of Their Own
Three generations of women cope with isolation, grief, and sex, in the first novel by the celebrated story writer, Rachel Sherman.
A Future of Vooks
The New York Times has an article running about “vooks”: a book that has videos incorporated within. The article strives to illuminate the argument that in a technology-oriented world, books—for…
Behind the Scenes of Being Bored to Death
The Jonathan Ames you may love and know is not only out with a new book but also a new series on HBO which is a spin-off from his real…
A Short, Personal History of Small, Independent Publishing (1995-2009)
Guys do a lot of things for girls’ attention, and my involvement with Mused Magazine was one of those things.
Jim Shepard on Writing Fiction That’s Got Some Truth to It
“The first worry writers have when they consider working with something like historical events has to do with the issue of authority: as in, where do I get off writing…
The Organization of Pain and Joy
Tom Healy’s first collection of poems, What the Right Hand Knows, is fashioned entirely of artful silence and alluring reticence.
Blog Blurbs on Books?
On the cover of Rob Riemen’s Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal, a blurb from Mark Sarvos of the blog The Elegant Variation graces its bottom left corner. On his…