The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval discusses her new novel, GIRLS AGAINST GOD.
...moreJenny Hval discusses her new novel, GIRLS AGAINST GOD.
...moreAn exclusive first look at the cover of the forthcoming collection, FORESHADOW!
...moreGabrielle Civil discusses EXPERIMENTS IN JOY.
...moreMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
...moreGabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.
...more“Time is really weird and fascinating.”
...moreElissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton discusses SHAPES OF NATIVE NONFICTION.
...moreThe child is born of them, yet is other to them; they work on behalf, and yet despite, and also against her.
...more“I’ve always loved collaboration. It was so exciting, because I love the energy. ”
...morePart of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
...morePoet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
...moreDessa discusses her recently released album, Chime, where she stands on the intersection of poetry and performance, and self-care for busy artists.
...morePoets Denise Newman and Hazel White discuss their most recent collaborative project, Biotic Portal, how they initially met, and loving their garden’s “outlaws.”
...moreKate Angus of Augury Books and Joe Pan of Brooklyn Arts Press discuss the challenges and triumphs that come with running an indie press, and the recent decision to make Augury an imprint of BAP.
...moreAuthor Verónica Gerber Bicecci and translator Christina MacSweeney discuss the novel, Empty Set.
...moreKaty Horan discusses Literary Witches, which she illustrated and worked on in collaboration with writer Taisia Kitaiskaia, out tomorrow from Seal Press.
...moreThis week, the online interdisciplinary project 7×7 has new work by Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). 7×7’s unique format pairs a writer and a visual artist to engage in a two-week long collaboration in the mode of the exquisite corpse games of the Surrealists. In “A Disappearing Landscape,” […]
...moreYona Harvey talks about her path to becoming a poet, Winnie Mandela as an artistic inspiration, and what it means to write more publicly.
...moreDamian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic novel Kindred.
...moreIn the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this kind of magic in his book, Stories for Ways and Means. A product of ten years’ worth of seeking and story pitching, Stories for Ways […]
...moreSisters and collaborators Kerry and Tyler Cohen talk about their new book Girl Trouble: An Illustrated Memoir, female friendships, and some of the challenges of writing memoir.
...moreIf you were to hear a story with its own soundtrack, it’s going to affect how you feel and interact with that story, even if you’re not directly paying attention to the music, and vice versa. I also believe that language is the shortened version of music. They’re just different methods of communication. Over at […]
...moreIt’s either a testament to the general belief held in director Grant Singer or a confirmation that buzz determines award nominations above all else, depending on how you look at it: The Weeknd and Daft Punk collaboration “Starboy” has received an MTV VMA nomination before its formal release. Listen to the song here.
...moreThe Smiths and PETA have released a video game in a collaborative effort to fight the violence of industrial agriculture’s treatment of livestock. Taking its inspiration the song “Meat Is Murder,” This Beautiful Creature Must Die asks players to fight to save chickens, pigs, cows, and turkeys from slaughterhouse doom. The game’s music is, of course, an 8-bit […]
...moreI once, years ago, sat next to a colleague at a premiere, and as the lights dimmed I whispered, “Why do I do this to myself?” And yet, I persist.
...moreRavi Shankar discusses Singaporean poetry in the last fifty years, Hindu mythology, translation, and his complicated relationship to his heritage.
...moreDrake came out with a collaboration with Gucci Mane and Justin Bieber took part in a remix of “One Dance” off of Drake’s album VIEWS. Listen to and read more about the Gucci Mane collaboration here and Bieber’s part in the remix here.
...moreFollowing the release of his latest mixtape Coloring Book, Chance the Rapper spoke with Zane Lowe in a lengthy interview about the work, the recording process, and the artist’s growing collaborative relationship with Kanye West. Listen to the full conversation via okayplayer and stream the mixtape here.
...moreAuthor Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
...moreSoul icon Chaka Khan and her siblings Taka Boom and Mark Stevens have put out their first collaborative effort in the song “House of Love.” Listen to the track via Shaboom and read more about the collaboration at NPR.
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