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Join NOW!Saturday 6/6: Amy Elizabeth Bishop, Sarah Jean Grimm, Ashleigh Lambert, Nina Puro, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke celebrate the latest issue of H-NGM-N. Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 6/7: Bill Roorbach and Heidi Pitlor discuss their new novels with Kathy Pories, senior editor at Algonquin. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free. David Shafer reads Whiskey […]
...moreInternet fame probably won’t sell your book, says Jami Attenberg, an author who garnered 50,000 pageviews one day after her bicycle was stolen. Writing for Buzzfeed, Attenberg explains how she set up a sting operation to get back her stolen bike after finding it listed on Craigslist. The story garnered momentary attention from local news […]
...moreSaturday 12/20: Adam Gopnik, Mike Albo, Jami Attenberg, Charles Bock, Alexander Chee, Scott Cheshire, Ashley Ford, Lev Grossman, Rahawa Haile, Jazmine Hughes, Leslie Jamison, Bennett Madison, Ayana Mathis, Eileen Myles, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul Sehgal, Rob Spillman, Emma Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan, Justin Taylor, Justin Torres, Adelle Waldman, and more will read from A […]
...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 […]
...morePaper notes and postcards have all but joined rotary phones and singing telegrams in the history books of communication. Email and text messages might have the advantage of speed (and sometimes playful naughtiness), but neither can compensate for the tangible quality of a physical letter. Writing for Vogue, Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg reminisces on the […]
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Writer Zachary Lazar chats about his newest novel, I Pity The Poor Immigrant, as well as following trails, writing books that are “accidentally Jewish,” and the benefits of becoming a crime writer.
...moreSaturday 4/5: T. Zachary Cotler reads from his novel Ghost at the Loom (2013), the story of a poet remembering his sister as he treks across Europe. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 4/6: Paige Taggart celebrates the release of Want for Lion, her first full length poetry collection. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Maud […]
...moreGet ready for the Morning News’s tenth annual Tournament of Books, a “March Madness–style battle royale” to determine which work of fiction will reign supreme (though the site is careful to note that the competition “is not an attempt to formalize the best 17 books of 2013”). Some of this year’s finalists include The Signature of […]
...moreSaturday 12/14: Mike Albo, Jami Attenberg, Sandra Bauleo, Alexander Chee, Adam Gopnik, Lev Grossman, Jill Hennessey, Dave Hill, Saeed Jones, Michael Kostroff, Fiona Maazel, Ayana Mathis, Téa Obreht, Gabriel Roth, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul Sehgal, Jim Shepard, Rob Spillman, Lorin Stein, Emma Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan, Justin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Justin Torres, […]
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Rosie Schaap discusses Drinking with Men, her love of poetry, her intriguing family members, and what she would do with her life if she weren’t a writer.
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Molly Ringwald, once a Brat Pack member and now a novelist, chats about the writing life, avoiding clichéd similes, and the influence of Raymond Carver on her process.
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The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jami Attenberg about The Middlesteins, the fair portrayal of an overweight protagonist, and food addiction in the face of an unforgiving culture.
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Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
...moreThis month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, The Middlesteins, hit bookstores yesterday, and there is so much love for Jami Attenberg—who is also a Rumpus contributor—it is nothing short of awesome. Here are some links to psych you up for this good read: The Rumpus’s own Saturday Editor Michelle Dean sits down with Attenberg for her “Quit […]
...moreThis month’s Rumpus Book Club author and contributor Jami Attenberg got some love over at Interview Magazine today. In “What’s Eating Jami Attenberg?”, the writer talks shop about her latest novel, The Middlesteins, and also puts in a good word for chivalry in art: “…that’s totally tied into who I am as a writer. But I think of being […]
...moreOur October Rumpus Book Club selection, Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, has been receiving lots of accolades from the likes of O Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Grantland. “…It’s clear-eyed funny and truthful and deeply moving, especially in the killer-punch of its ending.”
...moreAnd we love you back. While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets—Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s never simple, but if complicated is what produces a novel like this one, we should be grateful for the messy, the broken, and the quiet […]
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I have slept in 26 locations in the last seven months. This was never my intention, this peripatetic life, but looking back now at the age of 40, I can finally see I have been doing it for decades.
...moreAt The New York Times, author and Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg writes about the the disorientation and fear that came when, after a break-up, her ex-boyfriend started a site about her. “Creating the blog might have been his grasp at taking control of our story, but it was also his attempt to speak to me […]
...moreOver the past couple weeks, Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton has incited a number of responses. At The Daily Beast, Marina Budhos examines why Franzen took such a “tortuous and offensive back door route” to find sympathy for Wharton, instead of “exploring empathy” for an author who, she argues, faced similar writerly preoccupations […]
...moreThis week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One Story holds a Debutante Ball, Jewcy presents readings by Rachel Shukert, Sam Apple and Jami Attenberg, Paper Monument Magazine (sister-mag to n+1) throws a party […]
...moreRumpus Books has been busy with tons of excellent reviews. Also, illustrations and cute book excerpts. Come check it out.
...moreIn Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
...moreThis week, Rumpus books published pieces about fucking and writing, A Common Pornography, and Folksy Fruit. Also, there was an interview with Jonathan Lethem.
...more“Perhaps we should talk about fucking. Fucking and writing, fucking and talking, fucking and thinking, fucking and whatever else it is that fucking goes with…”
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