#candylit Sweetens the Twittersphere
This past weekend, an event of historical import occurred: the #candylit hashtag on Twitter. Started by Lincoln Michel with a “Fall of the House of Gushers” pun, it combined book titles…
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Notable NYC: 11/30–12/6
Saturday 12/7: Natalie Eilbert, Mike Bushnell, Rob Ostrom, and Christie Ann Reynolds inaugurate the Banquet reading series with an evening of poetry. Eilbert is the founder and editor of The Atlas…
The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
Literary Puns, Halloween-Style
If you like Timothy Leo Taranto’s literary puns here on the Rumpus, you’ll also enjoy these Halloween-themed literary puns over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Written and illustrated by Rumpus contributor…
The Rumpus Interview with Adrian Van Young
Adrian Van Young, whose fiction wades in traditions formed by writers like Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and Edgar Allan Poe, explores horror, terror, and the supernatural in new and unexpected ways.
“Our Education”
I think that most of us believe that time doesn’t really exist outside of the school. Or at least we act like it does not. This is to say, we…
The Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan
As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics. With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be…
On Berdych
Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel’s story “A Note on Type” tells the jealousy and revenge filled saga of the Berdych typeface. “Heyduk designed the typeface to cause strain in the eyes…