memoir
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Cendrars, The Extraordinary Daydreamer
Long before David Shields excoriated the strict boundaries between journalism and fiction, espousing, in its place, a loose and open-ended hybrid that is more in keeping with “reality”, a Swiss-born Frenchman with one arm, a Gauloises cigarette forever dangling from…
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The Resistance of Memory
Ander Monson attempts to move beyond “the singular authority of ‘I’ in nonfiction,” exploring new possibilities for the memoir form.
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed a comic novel and a book that “straddles the line between fiction and poetry.” We also published a Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Kara Candito.
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Fables of the Reconstruction
With patience reminiscent of Tolstoy, Cornelia Nixon weaves a tapestry of events to explain how an ordinary girl in post-Civil War Maryland kills her lover and gets away with it.
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A Remembrance of Frank McCourt
“Sit back. I’m going to tell you a story,” Frank said in his brogue, looking into the distance like a Homerian epic-teller. “Don’t you ever dare steal it.”
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Danzy Senna
We are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell.
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FUBAR Nation
Chelsea Martin’s strange collection of miscellany evokes the loneliness of life lived through technology.
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The Rumpus Interview with Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho talks about BDSM, vanilla sex, Eddie Murphy, fame, comedy, bad TV, learning guitar, writing books, and making music.