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Scodellaro’s characters have autonomy, know their comforts and desires, and find space and safety in the corners of forgotten places. They grieve on countertops, chewing ice and waiting for the return of a lover who has left for another.
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Morning exercise can also ignite that creative spark. Try to outrun an oedipal prophecy
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Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
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Simply put, the novel’s heart is not political but sensual.
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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
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Rheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
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The 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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Dana Czapnik discusses her debut novel, THE FALCONER.
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It is incredible to crack open an American novel and wince upon seeing parts of yourself reflected back so strikingly.
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Tessa Fontaine shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming debut memoir, The Electric Woman.
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The 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway!
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“I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much.”
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreRumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
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Just a “heads up” (as they say in the sports world): this isn’t your average sports list.
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Samantha Hunt discusses her new collection, The Dark Dark, why she became a writer, and the freeing quiet of darkness.
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Gabrielle Bell discusses her forthcoming graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable, what it was like to mine her own life for subject matter, and how anxiety affects her work.
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This book is the product of twenty-three years of writing and running—6 miles a day, 6 days a week.
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All too often, it gets hurled at strong women like a boulder of hate tied up with a big red misogynistic bow.
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Swati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women’s writing and women’s bodies, and much more.
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Victor LaValle discusses his latest book, The Ballad of Black Tom, patience, H.P. Lovecraft, and reinvention.
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John Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman’s, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
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On its surface, The Revenant is a story about revenge and survival. On a deeper level, it’s about how those two motivations factor into a generational battle between the (God-like) forces of nature and industry—a sort of perverted Armageddon.
...moreFifty years ago, a kid named Haruki Murakami borrowed books from his school library in Kobe, Japan. This week, the Kobe Shimbun, a local paper, published a list of the books he checked out, as compiled on book checkout slips—and Japanese librarians are up in arms, accusing the paper of violating Murakami’s right to privacy.
...moreThe world is a horrible place, full of bleak scenes and ghastly characters. Fill your eyeballs instead with the infinitely more appealing magical realist world of this Murakami-inspired video game.
...moreJapanese bookseller Kinokuniya Co. plans on increasing the number of direct purchases made from publishers to avoid wholesalers’ markups. The store previously bought most of the stock of Murakami’s latest essay collection to compete against online sales. Burlesque dancers danced outside a Barnes & Noble Bookstore on the Upper West Side of Manhattan after the […]
...moreImagine a world in the late 21st century: countries are underwater from the rising oceans, Europeans have become refugees, and a mathematical formula has been discovered that explains the entire universe, the applications of which include human flight (sans airplane) and the ability to remove pain and grief. That’s the world Lesley Nneka Arimah has […]
...moreThe famed Parisian English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company is set to open a cafe. The shop is partnering with New York restauranteur Marc Grossman, the man responsible for introducing juice cleansing to Paris. The Alabama Booksmith sells only signed copies. Atlas Obscura checks in with remote bookstore that values its out of the way location. […]
...moreIn what can aptly be described as a preemptive strike against online retailers like Amazon, major Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya bought up to 90% of the first print run of Haruki Murakami’s latest book of essays, Novelist as a Vocation. A Kinokuniya representative had this comment to offer: To rival online book retailers, bookstores across the […]
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