The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Ervin
Andrew Ervin discusses his debut novel, Burning Down George Orwell’s House, social media and writing, and how video games can serve as a way to understand the post-human world.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Hawkins
Author Jeremy Hawkins discusses his debut novel, The Last Days of Video, the resurgence of the independent bookstore industry, and allowing nostalgia to have presence but not precedence in one’s life.
The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso discusses her new memoir, Ongoingness, graphomania, and how motherhood does (or doesn't) change being a writer.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Waiting for the Tape to Rewind
I started watching as if I were dropping by to say hello.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Transparent and the Evolving Culture of Shame
There's a ray of nuclear longing at the center of Transparent...
Word of the Day: Frigiferous
(adj.); bearing or bringing cold; from the Latin frigus (“cold”) There’s no denying it, as much as we might wish to: the Northern Hemisphere is in the midst of the…
Weekly Geekery
Building an academic audience. The technology of your childhood. Academic innovation and the blame game. Pain and your brain and gain. When Reddit and journalism collide.
Reading Incompetent
Are we right to be nostalgic for a time before the internet when we could just read? Katy Waldman, writing for Slate, wonders if we might be misremembering things. I also…
Diamonds and Rust: Nostalgia, Form, and Noise
There’s always that longing to say everything and nothing at once, that yearning for the moment I forget I am myself.
Oh, Garrison
I came across this piece in the NY Times by Garrison Keillor bemoaning the new world of self-publishing via the twitter feed of Austin Kleon, who suggested Keillor should “just…
The Eyeball: Fellini’s Amarcord
I Remember Last night I met up with some of my former Amazon colleagues, guys who, like me, served tours of duty on the DVD team, to watch Fellini’s Amarcord…