The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Amy Letter reviews Laura van den Berg's THE ISLE OF YOUTH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“Black Eyes and Oozing Bullet Wounds”
Liz Wyckoff’s interview with Laura van den Berg for Tin House is a nice complement to our own. They talk about cohesion in short-story collections, faraway settings, and van den Berg’s…
The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations "with a potential for magic and strangeness," and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg’s debut collection of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, creates a nuanced portrayal of female isolation and independence,…
Reading in the New Year
Welcome to 2011! What do we call this decade, anyway? Who will win the Super Bowl? What will become of health care reform? How many New York City snowplows does…
THE BLURB #15: The Monster Impulse
The panic that pervades these stories arises because in our real, human world there is too much cause for fear and worry. Who, exactly, is responsible for the deteriorating environment? What, precisely, causes terrorism? Enter the bugbears and scapegoats.
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s a Sunday, and it’s the day after Halloween. What makes for a better hangover than reading an excellent bunch of book reviews?
Waterworld
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.
Journal Highlight: Monkeybicycle Issue #6
Short fiction is often spoken of in terms of genre, a genre of ephemeral writing that is erased from the mind as quickly as it was most likely written. But…
A Review of Deb Olin Unferth’s Vacation
Obsession distorts the lens through which we view the world; things that once seemed unfathomable become terrifically and terrifyingly plausible.