Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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Notable Online: 1/24–1/30
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 1/10–1/16
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/2–9/8
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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In Between the In-Between: Talking with Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang discusses her story collection Sour Heart, trying to escape the past, collective versus individual responsibility for trauma, and love as imprisonment.
...moreNotable NYC: 5/13–5/19
Sunday 5/14: Juliana Huxtable presents Mucus in My Pineal Gland along with Diamond Stingily and Andrew Durbin. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Wendy Xu, Tobias Carroll, Jimn Han, Jeanann Verlee, and Keegan Lester join the Dead Rabbits Reading Series. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
...moreNext Letter in the Mail: Anna North
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Anna North! Anna has been inspired to think in lists, and as the end of summer nears, she shares her lists of all the best things about summer and about fall. Want to check out what’s on Anna’s lists? Subscribe to Letters in the Mail by August 11! Anna […]
...moreAre You a Cook or a Baker?
Do you enjoy the culinary results of tossing ingredients together with some heat to create some spontaneous deliciousness? Or do you prefer the structured act of measuring and timing that create cookies and cakes? The methodological divide between cooking and baking is not so different between different types of writing: writers who write spontaneously versus […]
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How to Fail at Writing about Movies
If I have any advice, now, for writing about other media, it’s this: Go ahead and try.
...moreDrought-Stricken Literature
“And a new literature of drought may be emerging—one with room for stories that recall the past, but also for the possibility of trouble on a scale we’ve never seen before” According to Anna North, water—or rather the lack there of—is becoming a topic that writers increasingly engage with. You can read her essay about […]
...moreEven More Barriers to Women Writers’ Success
It’s not just the frighteningly misogynistic diatribes in the comments section—several other forces conspire to make life harder for female writers and journalists. For example: “The most successful branded journalists stake out provocative claims frequently and aggressively, without worrying too much about whether they’ll eventually be proved wrong,” but for women, eventually being proven wrong […]
...moreDown with Women’s Stories, Up with Stories about Women
I am not tired of stories about women’s lives, stories that tell me something real about how a particular woman thinks or works or loves. But I am tired of “women’s stories,” stories that are supposed to be about a problem that afflicts “women.” Anna North has a terrific essay up at Salon about the endless […]
...moreAmerica Pacifica
In a skillfully crafted post-apocalyptic world, Darcy, our young hero, searches for her missing mother in Anna North’s debut novel America Pacifica.
...moreRumpus Flash Fiction: “Simoom,” by Anna North
When my father left and my mother went crazy and carved into every wooden surface of our house a name that wasn’t hers or his, I asked what she was doing. She made me get down the dictionary. “Simoom,” I read…
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