The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Andrew Bertaina
“Life is incredibly sad, but it’s also funny, joyful, wonderful, and strange.”
...more“Life is incredibly sad, but it’s also funny, joyful, wonderful, and strange.”
...moreJen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME.
...moreJen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate MANNEQUIN AND WIFE.
...moreLaura Bogart shares a reading list to celebrate DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
...moreBrittany Hailer shares a list of books to celebrate her debut, THE ANIMAL YOU’LL SURELY BECOME.
...moreThey demand to be read aloud, the vocabulary seductively textured, tactile, like fan-vaulted chanterelles.
...moreWhen I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
...moreClare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
...moreThursday 2/2: Reed College Professor and PDX Jazz Board Member Pancho Savery will host a reading and lecture on the music that shines through the eras, “The Political Implications of James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues.’” Literary Arts, 7 p.m., free. Local author Deni Starr reads from her new book, Below the Belt. Another Read Through, 7 […]
...moreAt the Times Literary Supplement, Edmund Gordon shares an excerpt of The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, about Angela Carter’s time in Japan: the vertigo-inducing flight, what she loved and loathed in Tokyo, her affair with Sozo Araki, her creative process and anxiety towards the composition of The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.
...moreAll too often, it gets hurled at strong women like a boulder of hate tied up with a big red misogynistic bow.
...moreJaquira Díaz discusses the challenge of writing about family members, her greatest joy as a writer, and her literary role models.
...moreSwati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women’s writing and women’s bodies, and much more.
...moreLincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
...moreThis is the week of fantastical fiction, of the weird and the magical, of re-imagining fairy tales and urban legends, of making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. On Tuesday, a new edition of Angela Carter’s seminal 1979 story collection The Bloody Chamber was released to mark what would have been Carter’s 75th birthday, […]
...moreJeff VanderMeer discusses the environment, his childhood, and the conception and conclusion of his Southern Reach Trilogy.
...moreIt’s that time of year where we’re all craving a good scary story, be it told by candle light, on a screen, or in a book. Neil Gaiman’s middle-reader graphic novel Hansel and Gretel came out on Tuesday of this week, and he recently spoke to TOON Books editor Françoise Mouly and Art Speigelman about […]
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