Art as a Tool for Action
Over at NPR, Molly Crabapple discusses her new memoir Drawing Blood, her involvement in Occupy Wall Street, and how she became a political artist: …for a long time I felt like…
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The Rumpus Interview with Debra Monroe
Debra Monroe talks about her new memoir, My Unsentimental Education, the future of the genre, and how the Internet has changed what it means to be human.
Gloria Steinem Hits the Road
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic “Odyssey,” of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it’s…
A Misreading of Misery
NPR traces the history of Stephen King’s Misery from the novel, to the film, and, most recently, to the stage, and argues that this journey may have caused the story t0 lose…
Love Letters and the Long Con
This is a story is about a con that unfolded very slowly over two decades. When the con was finally exposed, some of the victims defended the people who had…
Cook Like a Prisoner
In prison, Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez learned to love ramen. Now Alvarez has a book of recipes based on his time in prison, interspersed with stories like the time when food…
Many Happy Returns, Gregor Samsa!
My favorite version of the text—if only because it was the one that came to me when I most needed it—is the 1972 edition, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold,…
Supporting Black Male Teachers
Elissa Nadworny at NPR’s Education Team interviews a researcher and former teacher, Travis Bristol, on the decline of black men in the teaching profession. Bristol’s research discovered that, in several…
A Podcast Becomes A Novel
In Night Vale, people experience several realities at once — and so do I, writing this review with a strange sort of triple vision. NPR reviews Welcome to Night Vale,…
R.L. Stine’s Deep Dark Secret
In advanced of the release of the Goosebumps movie, NPR’s Colin Dwyer reveals that children’s author R.L. Stine originally hoped to write humor: “I started when I was 9. I don’t know, I…
Wow, Such Meme, Much Apocalypse
It’s good fun to imagine a meme taking down humanity. NPR reviews James Tynion IV’s new graphic novel Memetic, a tale of an apocalypse that kicks off with a seemingly innocuous…