To Gleam at the Periphery: Talking with Kendra DeColo
Kendra DeColo discusses her new collection, I AM NOT TRYING TO HIDE MY HUNGERS FROM THE WORLD.
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Posts Tagged: Julio Cortazar
Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
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Fantasy Is a Writer’s Most Powerful Weapon: Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
The reality of the horror cannot be put into words, cannot be realistically described; it can only enter through imagination.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec
Mila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
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Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier
Allyson McCabe talks with Arthur Fournier, an independent dealer of books, serials, manuscripts, and archives, about how he developed his niche, and how digital access has both enriched and complicated the work of archiving and collecting.
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Barbara Berman’s 2016 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
Barbara Berman offers suggestions for your poetry and poetics holiday gift-giving needs.
...moreKeeping Up with Cortázar
Over at the Times, Hugo Passarello chronicles Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch through a revolving photo essay; in his own way, Passarello bridges the gap between written text and daily living (or at least does his best to keep up with Cortázar).
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The Rumpus Interview with Gregory Rabassa
Responsible for introducing American readers to One Hundred Years of Solitude and a large portion of the Latin American literary canon, award-winning translator Gregory Rabassa discusses the state of translation today and much more.
...moreA MODERN READER #7: Newspapers? Newspapers!
Last March, when the New York Times announced they would be erecting a pay wall, I knew I would pay it.
...moreSummer Rereading
“I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other from the tree of time. “Tonight I found a candle on a table, and as a game I lit it and walked along the corridor with it. The breeze stirred up by […]
...moreOn The Forgotten Magic Of Writing
“I’m so, so tired of reading about how writing should be demystified, how it doesn’t work the way Cortazar describes at all, how you toil at it slowly like you’re scrubbing a toilet, how the important parts are rewriting everything (preferably with the help of a gaggle of fellow workshop women) and killing your darlings […]
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