A Very Queer Book: Talking with Carter Sickels
Carter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
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...moreWe seem to find ourselves, as writers, standing amidst the last century’s discarded tropes of sexual identity. Recently, writers of all sexual permutations have been recycling this narrative architecture; reworking its stones and walls and windows; borrowing and transforming the old, four-square structures of identity into Gehry-like fantasias, curves, and spires. In the Boston Review, Stacey […]
...moreCan domestic life and rock & roll flourish together in contemporary novels? Should they?
...moreIt’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no one can really afford, to stay in and talk shop (or not, depending on how your writing’s been this year). That’s right: […]
...moreYour handy guide to the books that we reviewed at The Rumpus this week.
...moreThomas H. McNeely reviews Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNovelist Stacey D’Erasmo sits down to discuss her latest book, Wonderland, indie rock’s lack of a net, the appeal of visual artists, and what it means to put your entire self in your work.
...more“Women are more likely than men to change form and style,” or so Stacey D’Erasmo writes in this New Yorker piece. Female artists tend to transform their work over the course of their careers, while male artists are more likely to remain faithful to the styles with which they make their debuts. If … the alienation […]
...moreThomas McNeeley reviews Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE ART OF INTIMACY today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreA.J. Liebling once remarked that the authors of newspaper obituaries are “a frustrated and usually anonymous tribe.” That’s certainly true of Gabriel Collins, narrator of Stacey D’Erasmo’s unusual new novel, The Sky Below.
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