Women Better at Sex Writing?
Martin Amis, whose new novel made it onto the PW Best Summer Books list, explained to his audience at the Hay Festival that “women write better about sex.” “As a…
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Brian Spears in Cobalt
Cobalt Issue #4: Summer 2012 features an interview with our own Brian Spears. Topics of conversation include his debut collection, A Witness in Exile, shifting roles in the writing world,…
Murakami Bingo
“Mysterious Woman. Ear Fetish. Dried Up Well. Speaking To Cats. Weird Sex…” Grant Snider brings an illustrated “Haruki Murakami Bingo” board to The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review.
FUNNY WOMEN #80: My Future Author Bios, from Least to Most Likely
This is Rupinder Gill’s 85th self-published book. She recently moved back in with her parents.
Tumbeliever Party
The Believer and Tumblr are teaming up to present A Reading, Party, & Official Meetup in San Francisco. The event will star Mills Baker, our own Isaac Fitzgerald, Melissa Graeber,…
Gayle Brandeis at Salon
Over at Salon, Gayle Brandeis has a follow-up essay to her personal story, “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying,” about her mother’s suicide, published on the Rumpus last month. “I’ve made…
“Bradbury Was My Man”
Junot Díaz, author of the last book Jordan Alam loved, mourns Ray Bradbury, writing of how the “prescient lyrical writer with an abiding hatred for intolerance” inspired “many of our…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let the record show: a dingo did get their baby. Penguin sex totally grossed out old-timey Antarctic explorers. This is breaking all sorts of self-imposed rules here, but the world…
Notable New York, This Week 6/11-6/17
This week in NYC: MONDAY 6/11: Housing Works Bookstore Café hosts Morningside Opera’s A Weimar Flute—an experimental cabaret performance combining sections of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with literature from Weimar…
Money Novels
In the current issue of BookForum, Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, writes about “the perils of money fiction” in the twenty-first century. “There are a…
Finding Home
Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones will be writing monthly for Ebony. Don’t miss Jones’ Mother’s Day essay, and latest piece, “Traveling Man,” in which he sets out on a year-long journey.…
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