Notable NYC: 7/6–7/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Aleksandar Hemon
Notable Chicago: 6/21–6/27
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/13–4/19
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What Do I Do With My Fear?: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra discusses her new essay collection, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, fear, privilege, and the intersection of politics and everyday life.
...moreNotable Chicago: 9/29–10/5
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.
...moreThis Week in Essays
Aleksandar Hemon explores moral relativism in a time of Trump for Lit Hub. At Catapult, Teow Lim Goh reminds us that we’ve been here before as she examines the repercussions of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
...moreNotable Chicago: 1/20–1/26
Friday 1/20: Protest your ass off here, here, or really anywhere. Be safe and take care of each other. Then visit Women & Children First to celebrate the launch of Fail Better by Beyza Ozer and I Am Heavy w/ Feeling by Alexis Pope and Joshua Young. This event will also feature special guest Jenny Boully. 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday […]
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The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
Kevin O’Kelly reviews The Making of Zombie Wars today in Rumpus Books.
...moreMotion Picture Soundtrack
As it turns out, Aleksandar Hemon jams out to D’angelo, Grimes, and Fela Kuti; for the rest of the tunes the writer put on his playlist for The Making of Zombie Wars, head over to Largehearted Boy.
...moreWillful Ignorance
Over at the New Yorker, Alaksandar Hemon reads a slice of Nabokov; afterward, he chats about the foreignness of language, learning English from Pnin, and the book’s “complicated innocence” towards America.
...moreNotable Chicago 11/24–11/30
Sunday 11/24: The Chicago Book Expo is taking over St. Augustine College! Come spend the day listening to authors of all stripes (including Rumpus favorites Sam Irby, Dimitry Samarov, Martha Bayne, and Aleksander Hemon) talk about their passions and projects. Buy books, network with publishers, and take part in writing workshops. 11 AM, Free, St. Augustine […]
...moreAleksandar Hemon Reading
Aleksandar Hemon—Bosnian ex-pat, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and Rumpus interviewee—will be reading and signing books September 18th and 19th at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose. The event on the 19th even puts Hemon in conversation with our very own Peter Orner! See event details here (for the 18th) and here […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
Did you enjoy your weekend? Revisit it with a look at our weekend Rumpus features. Didn’t enjoy your weekend? We have just the thing to cheer you up: weekend Rumpus features.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon
“I never thought of myself as an outsider…[Y]ou would have to give advantage to this space where you’re not, to think of it as sovereign because you’re not there.”
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full Schedule Here), Agriculture Reader holds a launch party, the Dead or Alive exhibition opens at […]
...moreGigantic Online Presents Work by Saša Stanišić
While the second print issue of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art, is only days away from its anticipated release, Gigantic has just published new and noteworthy work online. There’s short fiction and poetry by Saša Stanišić (click here to read the recent Rumpus interview with Stanišić), including “Let’s Go Sleep Japan Soon,” […]
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings, world. Blogging will be light today. Your humble Sunday editor is in Monterey celebrating the life of a friend who recently passed. But to keep you with stuff to look at until tomorrow, here’s a brief roundup of some of links from the book blogs from this past week. Dan Brown may be invading […]
...moreIs Your Novel Autobiographical?
Academics spend their careers studying how autobiographical novels are. Readers spend hours obsessing over it. But in a brief interview with The New Yorker’s Book Bench, Aleksandar Hemon may have answered the age old question about whether his novel is autobiographical in a way that just might answer this question for all writers forever. Thank […]
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