The Rumpus 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
Our favorite gifting ideas this holiday season in one handy list!
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Posts Tagged: alice in wonderland
Setting Yourself Free: A Conversation with Alisson Wood
Alisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison
Alice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.
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The Limits of Extreme Beauty: Nicolas Winding Refn and Neon Demon
Daylight here burns up the atmosphere. The dawn of a new day is, in fact, the end of everything.
...moreFirst Edition of Alice in Wonderland Worth Millions
Alice in Wonderland remains one of the most beloved pieces of children’s literature, leaving its first editions truly a treasure for book collectors everywhere. Now, a first edition is going up to auction, and it’s expected to sell for an astounding two to three million dollars.
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Wild, Salty Body of Water
Sometimes, thick clouds roll in like doubts, and the god-like giants are obscured to the point where I almost swear they never existed. Other days, there’s no questioning their presence.
...moreA Riptide in the Human Mind
What is it to read Alice, a century and a half after its creation, in the era of Guantánamo? For me, it is to understand ‘nonsense’ not as children’s fantasy but as a riptide in the human mind, which drags us further off course the more violent or conceited or certain we are. For Electric […]
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ada Limón
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ada Limón about her new book Bright Dead Things, writing love poems in an age of cynicism, and committing to places.
...moreThe Wonderland of Imagination
Who are you?’ Isn’t this what every book asks of us as we chase its characters, trying to find out what they are reluctant to reveal? Is it not also the one essential thing we ask ourselves as human beings, as we struggle to make the choices that will define us? I can describe myself […]
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FUNNY WOMEN #130: Practice Test for Tweens
…educators have finally rolled out a new curriculum that they believe will be more exciting and relevant to various groups of young learners. Like this practice test for tweens!!
...moreThe Mystery and Controversy of Lewis Carroll
In fact, as far as his daily life went, “Lewis Carroll” was a complete non-person. Charles was always known personally only by his real name, letters directed to the pseudonym were returned unanswered, and he would walk away if strangers dared to mention “Alice” in his presence. For The Public Domain Review, Jenny Wolff examines […]
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HORN! REVIEWS: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
...moreWho Still Reads Alice in Wonderland?
For the New Yorker, Anthony Lane reviews Robert Douglas Fairhurst’s The Story of Alice, tracing the cultural importance of the “peppery briskness” of Lewis Carroll’s words.
...moreDalí in Wonderland
In a 1969 “collaboration of epic proportion,” Maecenas Press-Random House published an edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Salvador Dalí. While the price of the actual book is $12,900, you can peruse the illustrations here for free.
...moreMorning Coffee
Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty unsettling thing. Secrets of pinball economics. What was once thought to be mineral deposits we now know to be beautiful cave excrement.
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