LaToya Jordan
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Is Writing Therapy?
“Writing for an audience is about narration and structure and voice; it’s about the situation and the story. It’s not about how good or bad things are in your own psyche. It’s not about airing your dirty laundry, and it’s…
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Authors Insulting Bill
“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck you, dude. <3” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, in response…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/21-3/27
This week in New York RC Weslowski and a book party for Marie-Elizabeth Mali at louderArts, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus at The Center for Fiction, Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller on It Gets Better at Barnes…
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Practice SelfControl
Instead of writing poetry or posts for The Rumpus, I was checking Facebook, e-mail, some message boards I belong to, and then refreshing Facebook again, and again. Perhaps if I downloaded this SelfControl app, I’d be a more productive person:…
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Japan’s libraries
Continuing with the library theme, from the most beautiful to what happens when libraries die, here are some images from earthquake-damaged libraries in Japan. (Link is translated by Google). (via The Book Bench)
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Notable New York, This Week 3/14-3/20
This week in New York, Jane Eyre readings at Housing Works Bookstore Café, Karen Russell and Wells Tower at the New York Public Library, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sex Worker…
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The Rise of the Grief Memoir
“Grief, all of a sudden, is hot. Books by authors who have lost a loved one are becoming so common they’re now a classifiable snowflake in the unending blizzard of memoirs” —The Millions on grief memoirs and what makes them…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Does fiction tell the true story of childbirth? Online reading plagued by “Bye-bye belly fat” ads. Take a tour through the writing sheds of famous authors. (via) Fahrenheit 451 updated for 2011. (via)
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday. Sometimes you have to pull yourself away from the news. See what Rumpus Books has been up to this past week.
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Notable New York, This Week 3/07-3/13
This week in New York, the 2011 Oscar nominated shorts at BAM; “Let It End Like This,” an exhibition on obituaries; Bradford Morrow talks about The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death; Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club; PUNCH!…
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Women Writers in New York: Become a Mentor
Girls Write Now, the awesome organization that I mentor with, is looking for professional women writers to become mentors to a talented group of high school girls for the 2011-2012 program year. I’ve written about my experience as a mentor…
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No More Booty
First The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and now the Bible? “…‘booty,’ a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the ‘spoils’ of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic…