What to Read When You’re in the In-Between Place
Suleika Jaouad shares a reading list to celebrate BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS.
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Join NOW!Suleika Jaouad shares a reading list to celebrate BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS.
...moreJoyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
...moreHelen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
...moreJudith Krummeck shares a reading list to celebrate her new book, OLD NEW WORLDS.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreWe congratulate all of the NBCC finalists, and are especially pleased to have celebrated and featured the work of many of these writers on The Rumpus!
...moreA list of Rumpus editors’ favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful.
...moreMohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.
...moreHere are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it’s hard-wrought.
...moreA list of books written by past NEA grant recipients, as well as books that inspire protest and remind us that we can make a different reality than the one we’re in today.
...moreSaturday 3/4: Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic, curates Queer as Volk as part of the Festival Neue Literatur. Powerhouse Arena, 6 p.m, free. Timothy Liu and Christopher Salerno launch new books of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Michael Nicoloff and Christopher Stackhouse join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. […]
...moreI wonder if that is the case for many of us. Perhaps, in the widespread longing for likable characters, there is this: a desire, through fiction, for contact with what we’ve armored ourselves against in the rest of our lives, a desire to be reminded that it’s possible to open our eyes, to see, to […]
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