The Idiosyncrasies of Aging: Talking with Ali Solomon
Ali Solomon discusses her new book, I AM WHY DO I NEED VENMO? YEARS OLD.
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Sacred and Profane and Infinitely Compassionate: Remembering Anthony Veasna So
Agent Rob McQuilkin and editor Helen Atsma discuss AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Complications of #MeToo: Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure
Quin, too, must make sense of his behavior and the consequences.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
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A Sense of Scale: Talking with Jia Tolentino
JIa Tolentino discusses her debut essay collection, TRICK MIRROR.
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Totally and Brutally Honest: Talking with Amanda Petrusich
Music critic Amanda Petrusich discusses DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreThis Week in Essays
Oh, the simple pleasures of life before the Internet. Emma Rathbone hilariously takes us back to that arguably better time over for New Yorker. At JSTOR Daily, M. Milks comes to claim their queer identity thanks to the most radical of groups: book club. Gloria Harrison’s life splits in two after a terrible accident, and she attempts […]
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You Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris
David Sedaris discusses his new collection of diary entries, Theft By Finding, his love for book signings, and his inevitable return to IHOP.
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The Dark Heart of America: On David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann’s new book Killers of the Flower Moon explores the 1920s murders of the Osage tribe, the making of the FBI, and is a reminder of the all too recent history of betrayals that comprise America’s dark heart.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with George Saunders
George Saunders discusses his new (and first) novel Lincoln in the Bardo, Donald Trump, and a comprehensive theory of literature.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar discusses her book Strangers Drowning, why she finds nonfiction so compelling, and how she gets inside the minds of her subjects.
...more“Housefulls, Churchfulls, Airportsfull”
In an extended essay in the New Yorker, Megan Marshall, author of the forthcoming Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, writes about Bishop’s late, serendipitous move to Harvard where she met Alice Methfessel, a young “house secretary” who would become her caretaker, and the last great love of her life: “The poor heart doesn’t seem to […]
...morePortrait of an Actress
In an article for the New Yorker, Richard Brody writes about the newly restored 1967 film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Romy: Anatomy of a Face. The film “offers an intimate view of the actress Romy Schneider, revealing crucial conflicts behind the image of a public figure who loomed large in the German national imagination—and within the […]
...moreOrdinary (French) People
If some have trouble coming to terms with what Mège has made or done, it could be useful to think of her work, as conceptual as it might be, as a dance that lasted twenty-two years. For the New Yorker, Anna Heyward profiles Isabelle Mège, a regular person who has sought out portraits of herself from […]
...moreZadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides in Conversation
I only have a curiosity, an interest, a love, and that’s it, really. At the New Yorker, Michele Moses shares a video clip from the 2016 New Yorker Festival featuring writers Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides in conversation about their writing habits, point of view, and research. Separately, in a New York Times article, Eugenides […]
...moreThe Art of Twitter
Over at the New Yorker, Jonathan Blitzer writes about novelist Rabih Alameddine’s artful Twitter feed and how posting paintings and photographs is part of the author’s writing process. “[W]hile the welter of distractions on the Internet is a liability to many authors, Twitter settles him,” Blitzer writes.
...moreLight/Dark
At the New Yorker, Ed Caesar interviews Anna Lyndsey, author of the memoir Girl in the Dark, about her mysterious light sensitivity that kept her in the dark for over a decade. Citing prominent dermatologists, Ceasar questions Lyndsey’s symptoms and explores the possibility that they were psychosomatic, a possibility Lyndsey herself dismisses: My situation was so extreme, rare and […]
...more“The Disjointedness of Life”
For the New Yorker, Peter Moskowitz talks to poet Tommy Pico about anger, juxtaposition, and inheritance: He told me that he uses poetry to square two identities that don’t fit together well: being a poor, queer kid from the rez, and being a pleasure-seeking, technology-addicted New Yorker who would rather chase the boys he meets on […]
...moreLessons from The Little Virtues
For the New Yorker, author Belle Boggs reflects on Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg’s collection of essays, The Little Virtues, and how the book influenced her own parenting philosophy. Boggs writes: The title essay considers what we should teach children—“not the little virtues but the great ones,” according to Ginzburg.
...moreSome Kind of Deft Acceleration
Over at the New Yorker, Thomas Beller writes about reading Don DeLillo’s White Noise, with its opening move-in day scene on repeat, and the ways stories change when read again and again—even and especially presidential races and speeches, as with Bill Clinton’s speech at this past DNC.
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Podcatcher #4: Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
Jonathan Van Ness discusses his podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, fierceness, curiosity, and hairstyles.
...moreIt’s Never Just a Game
Adelle Waldman reviews Jay McInerney’s latest novel for the New Yorker: There’s no dodging the paradox at the heart of his career. Although his best books have never been merely lightweight eighties period pieces, the books set in that decade, and redolent of it, remain his strongest.
...moreNostalgia’s Record
At the New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich writes an ode to Other Music, a New York City record shop that recently closed its doors after more than twenty years in business. For Petrusich, the store was more than a place to buy music; it was an important part of her personal history: My scramble for self-identity was tied […]
...more“Seven People Dancing”
The New Yorker hosted a discussion about a previously unpublished Langston Hughes short story with Arnold Rampersand, who wrote a two-volume biography of the Harlem Renaissance poet, and first discovered the unpublished story thirty years ago. The story, “Seven People Dancing,” explores themes of sexuality and expression: I think that his cruelly comic, or comically cruel, […]
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