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Giving Voice to the Homeless Writing Community
Boston-based literary magazine The Pilgrim was founded by journalist James Parker with the aim to bring the unheard voices of the homeless community to print while encouraging, teaching, and healing…
Narrowly Avoiding the Spotlight
It took me nearly twenty years and the power of a fine film to fully realize what happened to me in the confessional was an inappropriate act by an adult against a child.
A Q&A with Salman Rushdie
The fictions of literature declare themselves as fictions — they are lies which admit they are lies and are therefore able, at their best, to tell profound truths. The fictions…
The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Tomlinson
Author Sarah Tomlinson talks about ghostwriting, her father and childhood, the tradition of confessional writing, and her new memoir, Good Girl.
This Week in Short Fiction
Earlier this month, Steven Millhauser released Voices in the Night, a new collection of short stories. On Tuesday, the Boston Globe described the towns of many of the stories in…
150 Years of Drum-Taps
“Mr. Whitman,” [Henry James] harrumphed, “is very fond of blowing his own trumpet.” The Boston Globe celebrates Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, which turned 150 this month, and discusses how when it…
Official Bards for the Bay State
All but six US states have official Poet Laureates; the Massachusetts House of Representatives is poised to cut that number down to five. Although many individual cities appoint poets to…
The Unsellable Books
I couldn’t sell them to Chicago for landfill. Patrick Modiano was practically unknown in America until he won the Nobel Prize, but David Godine, an independent publisher, has had boxes…
What’s A Book?
At The Boston Globe, Alex Beam explains the distinction between a real book and a “book.”
Cover Art Marginalizes Female Authors
The disparity in the number of male and female bylines might very well have something to do with the artwork featured on their books. Cover art informs readers of a…
A Portrait of the Bombers as Young Men
The Rolling Stone article “Jahar’s World,” which peered into the life of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been lauded as one of the best longreads of the year. Now the Boston…