The Mentor Series: Cynthia Newberry Martin and Pam Houston
Cynthia Newberry Martin interviews her mentor, Pam Houston.
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Posts Tagged: minimalism
Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #57: Jesse Ball
It can be hard to describe a Jesse Ball novel. They’re willfully strange, dark and puzzling, but the pieces aren’t always designed to fit together. Instead, each of his books, which are always written in the first person, have a tendency to take the reader into the heads of the lead characters, which is often […]
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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
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The Rumpus Interview with Roarke Menzies
Musician and producer Roarke Menzies talks about his debut album, Shapes, and about his inspirations for making music.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #68: A Way of Life
The thing about Scott Tuma is: the immense pathos of the recordings… Almost no one, frankly, is allowed to sound this sad and continue to have a musical career.
...moreGuess the Iconic Children’s Book
Bookroo, the children’s book subscription service, has a series of classic children’s book covers redesigned in a minimalist style. Can you guess the titles?
...moreSlaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 Cover Artist Passes Away
Paul Bacon, who designed more than 6,500 book covers, passed away on June 8th from a stroke. The list of books for which Bacon designed covers reads like a who’s who of literary and popular fiction: Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Wayne Harrison
Wayne Harrison discusses his debut novel, The Spark and the Drive, fiction, working as a correctional officer, and Carl Benz’s three-wheeled Motor Car.
...moreLeaving Out the Details
Tobias Carroll, writing over at Electric Literature, considers the level of detail authors use to create worlds in fiction. Some writers are known for sparse, minimalistic writing. Others leave out key details in a way that adds meaning to the story. Finding that appropriate amount of detail can be a challenge: Enumerate too much, and prose […]
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