Black Motherhood as Literary Creation: Talking with Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
...moreBecome a Rumpus Member
Join NOW!Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
...moreBeth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
...more[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
...more“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
...moreJosh Lambert discusses the anthology HOW YIDDISH CHANGED AMERICA AND HOW AMERICA CHANGED YIDDISH.
...moreNate Wooley, the reason for this piece, is a essential force in the contemporary music.
...moreMichele Filgate discusses WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
...moreKimberly King Parsons interviews her mentor, Victoria Redel.
...more“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
...moreWith impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreSaturday 5/27: Hossannah Asuncion and Che Gossett join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Tuesday 5/30: Samantha Irby presents her new essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (our May Book Club selection). Housing Works, 7 p.m., $20.
...moreThat’s what the Lonely Voice has always been to me. It was a privilege to be allowed to have a private conversation with myself in public.
...moreOver at the Atlantic, Joe Fassler talks to Alice Mattison about how Grace Paley’s short stories encouraged her to write fiction. Mattison recalls: From Paley, I learned that I could write about lives and feelings like those I knew.
...moreRebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
...moreThere aren’t many things that make sense, nakedly, without justification or explanation or exposition. But George Saunders reading Barry Hannah and Grace Paley does. For the New Yorker‘s Page Turner, he leafs through Paley’s “Love,” Hannah’s “The Wretched Seventies,” and chats about the reverberations of both. And if you haven’t checked out The Rumpus Book Club’s […]
...morePlaying off of Jerry Seinfeld’s video series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” The Morning News introduced a new column earlier this month called “Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food.” Roxane Gay offered up the first sampling, and this Wednesday, Jami Attenburg contributed the second, “Café de la Esquina.” Should there be doubts as to the genre of the review/not review, the editors […]
...morePolitical fiction can come across as heavy-handed, but avoiding all politics in writing may overlook the fact that people lead political lives. Over at the Atlantic, author Molly Antopol talks about how reading the fiction of Grace Paley taught her to write about political characters without sounding preachy—as she puts it, political fiction without a […]
...more