Notable Online: 5/2–5/9
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreBecome a Rumpus Member
Join NOW!Literary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreWatch December’s online Memoir Monday reading!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreSarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreMatthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreRumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
...moreJenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
...moreElisa Gabbert discusses her newest book, THE WORD PRETTY.
...moreA selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...moreTom McAllister discusses his new novel, How to Be Safe, workshops, Twitter, dystopia, and narrative voice.
...moreIn the latest installment of “The Blunt Instrument” over at Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert tackles the delicate question of bias in literary journals. Her answer? Take thoughtful reflections and make careful adjustments.
...moreBeyond the obvious fact of when it was written or published, what does it mean for literature to be contemporary? Is a work’s relevance determined by market trends and cultural currents? In her monthly advice column for Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert allays a writer’s temporally induced anxieties: Magical realism “has been done,” yes, but so […]
...moreI know of no level of success where writers stop getting rejected (and stop at least occasionally feeling bummed about it). People generally make more noise about publications than rejections, the same way people mostly share pictures of happy moments on Facebook, making their sad moments invisible. Rejection stings. Writing is hard. How do writers […]
...moreFor Guernica, Elisa Gabbert explores the incorporation of emoji into language and fiction. Gabbert also addresses the idea of diachronic translations, i.e. translating fiction from one historical era to another, and what place hyper-specific contemporary technology like emoji have in fiction.
...moreAuthor Elisa Gabbert talks about her books, The Self Unstable and The French Exit, diversity, publishing, whiteness, and writing in the Internet Age.
...moreYou’ve got a good thing going. How do you know when to stop? Over at Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert advises: Calling a manuscript done is a decision you need to make.
...moreFor Electric Literature, Adalena Kavanagh has a conversation with poet Elisa Gabbert on Google Chat about how to advise white male writers to publish ethically. Their conversation also explores topics related to power structures in the publishing industry, and the implications of white authors writing from the perspective of a different race: There is a long tradition of male […]
...moreLast week, Elisa Gabbert broke Twitter with her advice column addressing a white male writer’s anxieties about privilege and perspective. Christian Lorentzen followed up with the author for Vulture: But let’s talk about it! What if? What if we changed things or at least considered changing things?
...moreElisa Gabbert asks the hard questions for Electric Literature: When the VIDA counts come out and multiple publications are shown to publish far more men than women (with the numbers for POC writers looking even worse), editors make excuses about their submission pools – they get far more submissions and pitches from men than women. Then people […]
...moreParagraphs just might be the most underrated writing tool. Over at Smart Set, Elisa Gabbert points out how the use of paragraphs makes a difference in writing literature.
...moreAt Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert’s finally collected what we never knew we needed: a compendium of the year’s most essential literary tweets.
...moreAt The Believer Logger, 14 writers sat down with Elisa Gabbert to talk reading, writing, reading without writing, writing in the midst of reading, willfully neglecting both, dutifully submitting to one or the other, and their relationships with the two.
...moreBrian Pera reviews Elisa Gabbert’s The Self Unstable today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe History of Asterisks It is midnight under the sky’s dome ceiling. The moon speaks, saying nothing of consequence. John Wayne is from Iowa, so we hitchhiked West and I realized I never really loved you. Your skepticism of scientific indices of happiness is probably gendered or otherwise distorted. According to Keynesian economics, demand is […]
...moreYou do now. Join occasional Rumpus contributors Elisa Gabbert and Sommer Browning as they live-tweet “The Shining,” tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, 6:00 p.m. Pacific. Why don’t I include the other time zones? Because we do the conversion automatically. Follow the hashtag #redrum or follow Elisa and Sommer (I do!) at their respective Twitter handles […]
...more