The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty discusses her debut memoir, Tango Lessons, how the book found its current format, and writing a memoir at a young age.
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Posts Tagged: celeste ng
What to Read When Beach Weather Arrives
Rumpus editors suggest some of their favorite summertime reads!
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Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Celeste Ng
To help kick off the celebrations, we have an exclusive Q&A with Celeste Ng, 2018 National Bookstore Day Ambassador!
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreNotable NYC: 2/3–2/9
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Read Women on Home
A list from Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters to celebrate the release of This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home.
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What to Read When You Want Fire and Fury
Rumpus editors share a list of books by writers of color and women that bring fire, fury, and sometimes, both.
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 10/4–10/10
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 10/2–10/8
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
...moreNotable Portland: 9/28–10/4
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreGet Your Signed Copy of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere Today!
Now through 10/31, get a signed copy of LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng!
...moreNext Letter in the Mail: Celeste Ng (AND SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAY!)
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from bestselling author and Rumpus Advisory Board member Celeste Ng!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/9–9/15
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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What to Read When You Need Some Good News
Take a quick break from the apocalyptic news and end your week with this list of books to eagerly anticipate (assuming the world doesn’t end) instead!
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What to Read When the President Cuts Funding for Everything Good
A list of books written by past NEA grant recipients, as well as books that inspire protest and remind us that we can make a different reality than the one we’re in today.
...moreIntroducing the Rumpus Advisory Board
When we shared our exciting news about The Rumpus’s future last month, I mentioned that we’d create an advisory board to help us guide the site forward. The function of the advisory board is to help when we have questions or need a sounding board for new ideas, to serve as role models for us, and to […]
...more“We Are Not Robots. We Do What We Can.”
Without readers, for better or worse, writers would have no one to answer to but themselves. But readers sure do ask a lot of questions. Now, writers are asking this question: Shouldn’t there be a way to say, without any conflict, I need to be left alone now?
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It’s Okay that You Haven’t Read Finnegans Wake (Really)
Over at Hazlitt, Sarah Galo and Elon Green have cornered a handful of authors, from Renata Adler to Celeste Ng, into admitting their literary gaps, from Finnegans Wake to To Kill a Mockingbird. Something we should keep in mind is that there is more work produced every day than a single person can get to in […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
This week was the third annual #TwitterFiction Festival, held here, there, and everywhere in typical Twitter style. The Association of American Publishers and Penguin Random House partnered to host the event this year, bringing in such big names as Margaret Atwood (@MargaretAtwood), Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing), Eric Jerome Dickey (@EricJDickey), Jackie Collins (@JackieCollins), and Maggie Stiefvater […]
...moreAmazon’s Book of the Year
Celeste Ng’s novel, Everything I Never Told You, was recently named by Amazon as the book of the year. Amazon’s editorial team reviewed 480 fiction and non-fiction books before coming up with a top 10. Ng sat down with Hermione Hoby for the Guardian to talk about about writing, race, and Amazon: “It’s hard to feel […]
...moreAre You My Mother?
At The Millions, Anna Solomon asks what it means that “literature is filled with disappearing mothers”: Why so much motherly abandonment? It makes for good conflict, of course. It can help define characters and set plots in motion. Most importantly, it’s an act that even in 2014 remains, in many ways, the ultimate taboo. Solomon centers much of […]
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