The Rumpus Interview with Austin Bunn
Austin Bunn talks about his new story collection, The Brink, his latest script for a short film, In the Hollow, working in multiple mediums, and why some novels read like early drafts of screenplays.
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The Well-Paid Trolls
Reporting on Russian Internet trolls for the New York Times Magazine, Adrian Chen uncovers fake art exhibitions, follows “I Am Ass” on Twitter, and talks with a neo-Nazi. He’s also followed.
Tweeting Me Softly
Johnetta Elzie and DeRay McKesson, the authors of America’s first full scale 21st century civil rights movement, get the full profile treatment at the New York Times Magazine.
Strolling Through New York
Nathaniel Rich breaks down New York’s reputation, and literary history, as the greatest walking city for NYT Magazine: Yet the idea of New York as a walker’s paradise—a city best, and only authentically,…
Believe Me
Over at NYT Magazine, Etgar Keret slips us an essay on teaching his son the art of forgiveness: The minute we got into the taxi, I had a bad feeling.…
The Second Saga
The New York Times Magazine has the second part of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s slow American road trip.
Off the Island
Marlon James writes about leaving home for the New York Times Magazine: In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. By now, the person I created in…
The “Loser Edit”
For the New York Times Magazine, Colson Whitehead traces the conception of the “loser edit,” and how it awaits us all. Fifteen years after the emergence of shows like Survivor…
Teju Cole: On Photography
Among one of the many new aspects of the New York Times Magazine’s redesign is a cast of four columnists, each featured for one week during the month. Here’s Teju…
The Last Pulp Star
Chris Offutt talks about the life and death his father, one of America’s last adult-pulp writers, for NY Times Magazine: In the mid-1960s, Dad purchased several porn novels through the mail.…
The First Wheel
In the New York Times Magazine, Wesley Yang profiles Eddie Huang, the author of Fresh Off The Boat, a memoir about his life as an Asian-American growing-up in Orlando. The…
Temporary Residence
At NYT Magazine, Maggie Jones profiles an entire generation: the South Korean adoptees making the trek back “home.” But having spent their lives abroad, where “home” is becomes a tough question…