Soft Skull
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Startling Juxtapositions: Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham
Hannaham reserves his most vivifying language for planes and crashes.
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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.
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Love, InshAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Love, InshAllah, a new collection of essays about romance, love, and sex by Muslim American women, proves that love and faith can live in the same house.
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Erick Lyle’s Secret History Of The City
If you live in San Francisco long enough, you start to wonder: “Where the hell can I go at 3 a.m. which isn’t home or a laundromat or a massage parlor?” This simple question might balloon into a larger, perhaps…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s your humble Sunday guest editor back in the hot seat again for another wild ride through the bookblogosphere! Today is special to me because the Folsom Fair will be happening which, if you’ve never been, is one of the…
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Words on Paper Aren’t Going Anywhere
“The mission for book publishers and print media at large should be to create a product that is irreplaceable and indispensable.” Eric Obenauf, the publisher of Two-Dollar Radio, doesn’t think that print is dying. Changing? Certainly. But disappearing? No: