Posts Tagged: app
Books by Bicycle, within an Hour
Londoners, if for whatever conceivable reason you need a book on your front doorstep within the next hour, there’s an app for that. NearSt is a new London-based app that offers a selection of books from nearly forty local bookstores that can be browsed, ordered, and delivered straight to you via bicycle courier. However, the app […]
...moreA Modern Take on the Serialized Novel
To marry the traditions of the Victorian novel to modern technology, allowing the reader, or listener, an involvement with the characters and the background of the story and the world in which it takes place, that would not have been possible until now, and yet to preserve within that the strongest traditions of storytelling, seems […]
...moreTyping Writer Free, This Week Only!
Did you know The Rumpus has our very own app, Typing Writer? We do! And through December 16th, you can download Typing Writer and try it out at no cost! Typing Writer turns your iPad into a typewriter. Typing Writer is about getting words on the page. It comes loaded with first drafts from some of […]
...moreThe Translator as a God
Actually, I would compare the translator to a God—but unlike some false gods, he does respond to your prayers… Electric Literature interviews Alex Epstein, the author behind the True Legends app, about his experience collaborating with other artists and working with a translator.
...moreTypewriters Are Latest High Tech Spy Tool
In the wake of American spies tapping into every form of electronic communication, Germany is considering typewriters for highly sensitive documents. The Russians have already instituted such measures. Typewriters aren’t foolproof though. In 1984, the Soviets listened to the keystrokes of US Embassy secretaries, looking for patterns. Meanwhile, for less sensitive documents, there is Typing […]
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Interactive digital storytelling: fiction’s next frontier? In the New York Times, Chris Suellentrop examines interactive technologies as used in Blood & Laurels, by Emily Short: Exploring those possibilities is one reason Ms. Short became a writer of interactive fiction rather than of more conventional stories. “I found myself frustrated that I couldn’t write multiple versions of the same scene,” she […]
...moreThe Emancipation of Digital Reading?
Is it possible to read War and Peace on an iPhone? In the Pacific Standard, Casey Cepp considers whether apps can actually help us become better, more thoughtful readers: This literary diet will not be for everyone. But the emancipation of digital reading habits, like those of the printed book before them, allows us to choose the way we read.
...moreYou Are Invisible
Writing in the New Yorker about the smartphone app Cloak, Mark O’Connell offers a thoroughly beautiful and poetic commentary on the ontology of visibility: By generating a kind of omnipresence—whereby we are always available, visible, contactable, all of us there all the time—the technologies that mediate our lives also cause us to disappear, to vanish into a fixed position on […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus—founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Pavement, one of the most critically and publicly adored bands in indie rock history—talks about his recent years with the Jicks, writing riffs, and not dwelling on the past.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Mitchell S. Jackson
Cullen Thomas sits down with Mitchell S. Jackson to discuss The Residue Years, overlooked and ignored communities, studying with Gordon Lish, and writing dangerously.
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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Rebecca Walker
Sari Botton and Rebecca Walker talk about the challenges of writing about parents, becoming estranged from them, and then moving together past estrangement, to eventually heal the rift.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacob Tomsky
Writer and former hotel employee Jacob Tomsky sits down to chat about his hospitality memoir Heads in Beds, the impetus for opening up about the service industry, and his literary nonprofit.
...moreSlow Down, Speed Reading Enthusiasts
Last week, we talked about the new speed reading app Spritz, which promises to have us reading faster than we ever thought possible. As it turns out, it may not be possible after all—or so argues this article up at The Atlantic. Most research concludes that “as speed increases, comprehension deteriorates.” And why are we […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Molly Antopol
Writer Molly Antopol talks about what it’s like to craft a story collection over the course of ten years, the desire to never feel smarter than her characters, and the thin piece of glass that exists between her and Israel.
...moreHow Writing Helped Connu’s Founders with Business
Last year, writers Susannah Luthi and Niree Perian launched Connu, a sort of literary magazine in app form that curates short stories for readers. (We blogged about their Kickstarter campaign back in June.) You’d think creating apps and writing fiction would go together like water and oil, but Luthi says it was actually surprisingly helpful […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Abani
Chris Abani sits down to talk about the dangers and seduction of fiction, literature as transformation, growing up in Nigeria, and how “our every justification is a story.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Marcus
Writer Ben Marcus discusses his latest short story collection, metaphorical writing, language as a communication block, and the sometimes dysfunctional nature of workshops.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerry Stahl
Writer and Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl sits down for a candid chat about memoir, novels, shame, parenthood, being pigeonholed, and managing “the neat trick of being an outsider in all genres.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón talks about his latest novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, drawing inspiration from Bolaño and Chekhov, the writer’s place of privilege, and the questions that arise from an imagined life that easily could have been.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Sampsell
Writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell talks about his first novel, This Is Between Us, the intricacies of romantic relationships, and making people uncomfortable through “holy shit moments.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Dixon
The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.
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The Big Idea: Fady Joudah
Suzanne Koven speaks to Palestinian American physician and poet Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context, and the marginalization of the “other” in the literary world.
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The Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle, who has now written over twenty books, talks to The Rumpus about his most recent short story collection, four decades of cooking up high-grade literary tales, the importance of performance during readings, and life at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman
Comedian, writer, and performer John Hodgman sits down with The Rumpus to chat about channeling Ayn Rand, his Secret Society shows, giving himself permission to open up, and being a product of the Internet.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sari Botton
We sit down with Sari Botton, long-time Rumpus contributor and author of our “Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me” column, to talk about her new anthology, Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, and more.
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Under the Table
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
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Coming Out, Again and Again, in 27 Easy Steps
1. Pretend it’s okay that your birth certificate labels you as female. You know perfectly well you’re not.
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