Lia Lee, 1982-2012
Lia Lee, the protagonist of Anne Fadiman’s excellent work of non-fiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, died on August 31st. If you don’t know just what that signifies,…
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Stacey May Fowles on Sexual Violence
Stacey May Fowles has a great essay up at the National Post about writing and publishing — or rather, writing and not-publishing — accounts of sexual violence. It might not…
McSweeney’s Interview With David Byrne
McSweeney’s recently published How Music Works, a book by David Byrne that explains all aspects of music, from creation, to distribution, to performance. In recent years, Byrne has released chapters of the book…
The Death of Anna Kournikova Era: The State of Women’s Sport
Grantland addresses the change in media coverage and marketing of women’s sports today given the success of so many female athletes this summer at the Olympics and beyond. “Kournikova has…
Our “Literary-ish Party”
The Outlet has a nice write-up of our NYC event, complete with photographs and juicy details. “Whitehead’s reading culminated like a proper finale should, in phrases that dazzled and thundered…
BOMB’s Poetry Smackdown
As part of Lit Crawl NYC, BOMB Magazine presents: Poetry Smackdown this Saturday at 7pm at Dempsey’s Pub (61 2nd Avenue). Twelve poets will compete in a read-off to win…
How Books Clubs Went Indie
“Forty-something Betsy Birdsall jokes that she likes the Rumpus group because it enables her to hang out in her bathrobe and slippers while pretending she has friends. She says Elliot…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Technology can be rad: 3-D printed bald eagle beak! Maybe levitating drugs in zero-g will make them more effective (tell me something I don’t know, scientists). The best way to…
NYC: Writers Reading Other Writers
This Saturday, our friends over at The Believer (and Gigantic) are hosting Writers Reading Other Writers as part of NYC Lit Crawl. The event will feature work by Rumpus contributors Justin Taylor and…
Happy Roald Dahl Day!
The Guardian has put together a very awesome link round-up of Dahl-inspired activities for the writer’s birthday today, including pictures of Dahl’s childhood and family, the man himself reading the…
The (Imagined) Woman Reader and Male Anxiety
“The Contemporary Male Novelists fear the Female Reader is no longer willing to interpret rampant misogyny as searing self-portraits of mangled masculinity, but rather as just more misogyny and who…
Fail Better
“Then again, you might not be the funny type. How about making the rejection letter poignant, depressing, or even hurtful? Push the envelope. Your audience is a bunch of bored…