Keeping Time in Los Angeles
Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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Posts Tagged: California
Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Cha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
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Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi
Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
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Butcher Knives at the Ready
For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Just Do Something: Talking with Sam Farahmand
Sam Farahmand discusses his debut novel, CHIMERO.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Journalists Invade Former Soviet Union”
The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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Anger as Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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The Sacred Act of Art-Making: A Conversation with Patrick Coleman
Patrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
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Monarchs, Motherhood, and Transformation
These butterflies needed help, and I wanted to deliver them my garden.
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The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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A Cleansing Tornado: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
Undergirding all the truth about pain is the triumph that comes from having a heart like a window and a mouth like a cliff.
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That’s My Story, Too: Talking with Malaka Gharib
Malaka Gharib discusses her graphic memoir, I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Studying the City of Angels: A Conversation with Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
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Through the Translator’s Lens: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s Objects of Affection
For Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, language provides a stronger connection with the past than nationality alone.
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Still Standing
I whisper into my own ear: you are safe, you don’t need to run.
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What to Read When the World Is Ending
Books to read in this fraught political moment.
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Don’t Miss the Napa Valley Book Fest!
Celebrate local writers and booksellers at Napa Valley Book Fest!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstores news from across the country and around the world!
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Follow Your Nose: A Conversation with Daniel Gumbiner
Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel, THE BOATBUILDER.
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A Pointed Narrative Choice: Talking with Lydia Kiesling
Lydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Emboldened to Ask: A Conversation with Natalie Singer
Natalie Singer discusses her debut memoir, CALIFORNIA CALLING.
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The Thread: American Garbage
The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.
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A Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There
THERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
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The Abattoir
This is what my mother doesn’t want me to see: the death rattle in a forbidden room. This is what she doesn’t want me to know: how one life is sacrificed for another to live.
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