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I Intend To Stop Writing About Gender Sometime I Swear

Last Saturday, after I posted the Gone Girl essay that turned into another gender-in-literature rant, I thought to myself, “Self, let’s find a new subject, surely your readers are getting bored.…

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The Contenders

The National Book Award Foundation recently launched an online exhibition devoted to the 373 books that were NBA Fiction Finalists between 1950 and 2011. Now a permanent part of the…

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“The Removals”

Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes has the first installment of a three-part story up at Berfrois. “They took you to the first house, and then, later, to the second. By the…

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The Less You Tell

“For the shy and passive aggressive, blackmail might be the perfect means of control. Hone your blackmailing chops and you can utilize them in a range of scenarios: betrayal, revenge,…

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Pynchon Promotional Treasure Hunt

Have you seen this sticker? If you are a fan of author Thomas Pynchon, you’ll recognize the image as one of the key symbols from his 1966 book The Crying of…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

“I am throwing up in my hat. I am throwing up in my hat.” Drunk texts from famous authors. In an attempt to learn more about how human babies learn…

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“There are two things you don’t throw out in France – bread and books”

The New York Times reported yesterday on the notable difference between independent bookstores in France, and their struggling American counterparts. The article describes the way in which government intervention and…

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Rebirth of the Epigram

“Twitter’s formal properties bend, simultaneously, in opposite directions: toward the essential but also the superfluous, the concise but also the verbose.” n+1 gets all philosophical about the tweet.

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Problem Solving: Part 1

When we talk about issues of representation, many editors say, “Where do I find writers of color?” I’d like to start to answer that question by compiling a working list…

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Art as Witness

“I believe Nina Simone tried to build that gun because that night she realized what all other-ed bodies eventually realize: a gun was already at her head. She feared a…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

A 50-million-year-old turtle orgy. Turns out most people would like more meat in their antibiotics. Or fewer antibiotics in their meat. What was that book?

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Lonely Art

“…Loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of…

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