Features & Reviews
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Ordinary Injustice By Amy Bach
“‘Ordinary injustice results,’ Bach writes, ‘when a community of legal professionals becomes so accustomed to a pattern of lapses that they can no longer see their role in them.’ She cites the well-known case of the sleeping lawyer: Joe Frank…
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More Than Just Juliet Naked
The guys over at largehearted boy are running a contest inspired by the many films based on Nick Hornby’s novels. All you need to do to enter is let them know your favorite book to film adaptation. The winner of…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Two Kinds of Decay
…these hot coals of her story burned my hands as I tried to hold them.
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The Book of William, Reviewed
The Book of William — the new book chronicling the fortunes of Shakespeare’s First Folio, by regular Rumpus contributor Paul Collins — gets a nice brief writeup in the “Nonfiction Chronicle” feature of the NYT Sunday Book Review: “Part antiquarian-book primer,…
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Wild Kingdom
“Lydia Millet is one of the loosest writers I know. Her work takes rare risks with subject matter and form, and does so with a sense of jazzy improvisation.”
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Depressing Art
In an article for The New Yorker, Caleb Crain writes about the art that arose from overwhelming suffering and poverty of The Great Depression. From the invention of the screwball comedy to the self-conscious prose of James Agree, Crain explores…
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Tamim Ansary At Red Hill Books
As both a Rumpus regular and as an employee of Red Hill Books, I’m pleased to announce that on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m. at Red Hill fellow Rumpus contributor, Award-winning author, storyteller and Bernal resident Tamim Ansary will be reading…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/5-10/11
MONDAY, October 5, 2009 – SUNDAY October 11, 2009 This week in New York, Stephen Elliott reads from his memoir The Adderall Diaries, which has its East Coast Launch with n+1, Spike Jonze week in New York, Sufjan Stevens performs,…
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The Woman Behind Your Weekends
If you look up the New Deal on Wikipedia you’ll hardly see Frances Perkins‘ name mentioned. Yet, as the first female cabinet member, serving as FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she was the major force behind such revolutionary acts like minimum…
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If you were wondering whether they still ban books
The answer is yes. And thanks to the freedom of information represented by the Internets, we can now track book bannings on a handy interactive map.
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Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others
A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary marketplace. Of the hundreds of responses to the thread and…
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R. Crumb’s Version of Genesis
Comic book genius R. Crumb has a new book coming out. This is very exciting for me. What’s even more exciting is that said book is his own personal version of Genesis. Not the band. The first book of the…