“If asking contributors to write for free then collecting 50K is good karma, what’s bad karma, Mark?” I know we’ve been linking to a lot of Rumpus contributor Steve Almond…
The book blogs had a great week — here’s some of what they have to say: This is very cool. Check out The Underground Library, a community in which “books…
Are marketing departments running the major publishing houses? Do editors and agents know what they're doing? Are small presses the future of literature? Is everything a crapshoot? What's a first-time novelist to do?
At The Rumpus, we believe that a healthy literary culture is one which embraces writing of all kinds, by authors of all stripes – young and old, established and emerging, traditional and experimental, writing from the margins or from (or about) the heart of mainstream culture, published by “major” houses or by smaller presses.