Aleksandar Hemon

  • Notable 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…

  • Aleksandar 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…

  • Weekend 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.

  • The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon

    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.”

  • Notable 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…

  • Gigantic 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…

  • The 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…

  • Is 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…