TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.
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A Meer-Kin in Paris
Her face lit up, and I checked to make sure the man’s scowl had returned. It wasn’t enough for me that heaven should exist for the wife; her husband had to end up in hell.
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Natural Born Drivers
He only knew that the Blazer, like the green card, was something he wanted my brother and me to have, so that we knew we deserved things, things like America.
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A Japanese Heart
If you follow the script, people will judge you as having a genuine Japanese heart.
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The Rumpus Interview with Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov discusses his debut novel, Stork Mountain, Balkan history, and the difficulties and rewards of being a bilingual writer.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Carol
Carol is a powerful woman with enviable self-knowledge, effortlessly creating an erotic, sensual ideal of herself as a covert spectacle for queer midcentury women.
...moreOf Novelists and Politics
In 2015, to be an influential fiction writer means only to wield influence within a niche audience of people who are already of the same mind… American political discussion is fond of one-note oversimplification of complex issues. So where do we make room for the nuanced discourse novelists offer? More, over at Newsweek.
...moreThe British 20 Under 40
Great Britain is making its own lists. And Great Britain is still publishing novels. If you believe the rumors, the raging historical narratives are printed by hand, folded into folios, carried from London’s dust into the countryside in the talons of birds that never made it across the Atlantic, placed on a round table in […]
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