More Than Just a Tussle
Skirmish kneads the world’s dough through peculiarities that maintain the engagement with strangeness and the fortune of language, both as a path to richness and to predicting what will be.
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The Hottest Book in Charing Cross
I’ve long been convinced—see my Village Voice piece from a few years back—that the eventual maturing of in-store Print on Demand technology could spell the end for chain stores in…
The First Known Dust Jacket
Sunday’s Guardian reports a pretty nifty find at the Bodleian: the first known dust jacket.
Jason Roberts: A Poem I Love
Donald Justice, “Men At Forty” Dear sweet god. This is a poem that renders an entire genre of novels unnecessary. What the hell is it that every meditation-on-middle-age is saying,…
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
A new and heralded collection of short stories digs to the heart of obsession, isolation, and strangeness.
The Rumpus Original Combo: Colson Whitehead
A review of Sag Harbor, followed by an interview with Colson Whitehead—or, as we like to call this literary twofer: The Rumpus Original Combo.
“Hurt People” by Cote Smith
There are reasons why parents tell their kids not to talk to strangers. One might be reading “Hurt People” by Cote Smith, a debut story in Issue 118 of One…
“Are people who write entirely & absolutely selfish, darling?”
In the last Nation, Michelle Orange picks apart A Life in Letters, a book of Graham Greene’s correspondence edited by Richard Greene (no relation, really, she checked).