An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
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...moreJen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto share a reading list to celebrate TINY NIGHTMARES.
...moreBut this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.
...moreChloe N. Clark discusses her debut story collection, COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES.
...morePeg Alford Pursell shares a reading list to celebrate her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
...moreRumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history past, present, and future.
...moreFeet dangle in the foreground, suspended in space by distance and gravity.
...moreA list of books releasing in the first half of 2019 that we can’t wait to read!
...moreThe 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
...moreRenee Simms discusses her debut collection, Meet Behind Mars, leaving law to become a writer, and writing through major life changes.
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses Her Body and Other Parties, riffing off the work of others, and how writing is like solving a math problem.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite winter reads.
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses her debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, her favorite horror writers and movies, and writing the book(s) she’s always wanted to read.
...moreClare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
...moreOver at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ilana Teitelbaum writes a glowing review of Helen Oyeyemi’s short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, praising Oyeyemi’s singular voice. Teitelbaum writes: “The dazzle of Oyeyemi’s technique fully engages the reader’s mind; the heart is undisturbed. … Oyeyemi’s infinitely nested stories seem an end […]
...moreMost of the rest of the stories in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked, with major characters in one story later turning up as minor characters in another. This loose, multiracial, polymorphously perverse, generation-spanning cast lives mostly in present-day England, but they have roots elsewhere. Anton grew up in “a country that’s not even sure […]
...moreManuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
...moreAuthor Laura van den Berg has glowing words about Helen Oyeyemi’s short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. In her New York Times book review, van den Berg writes: “A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem… Oyeyemi has created a universe that dazzles and […]
...moreShe’s black, but not local, this new colleague who wears her boots and jeans and scarf with a bohemian aplomb that causes the others to ask her where she shops. “Oh, you know, thrift stores,” she says with a chuckle. George at the desk next to yours says “Charity shops?” and the newcomer says “Yeah, […]
...moreFor a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of who she might be. When that world insists on racist and narrow paradigms, the diary gives these women a chance to scratch out and rewrite […]
...moreRewriting the classics has become a stale and risk-averse strategy. But that shouldn’t spoil the fun of our larger culture of remixing.
...moreWriting for The New Inquiry, Hannah Black explores race in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird and the relationship of white, black, and mixed racial identities in modern western culture. Similarly, race-authenticity does not spring up from the mere fact of certain physical features—it has to be mined from others. Mixed-race identities are fissured only in […]
...moreAnita Felicelli reviews BOY, SNOW, BIRD by Helen Oyeyemi today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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