A Very Queer Book: Talking with Carter Sickels
Carter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
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Posts Tagged: Stacey D’erasmo
Notable Online: 7/5–7/11
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 1/6–1/12
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreWalk-In Closets
We 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 […]
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Rock & Home
Can domestic life and rock & roll flourish together in contemporary novels? Should they?
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’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: […]
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The Rumpus Review of Books
Your handy guide to the books that we reviewed at The Rumpus this week.
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Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo
Thomas H. McNeely reviews Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacey D’Erasmo
Novelist 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.
...moreThe Power to Transform
“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 […]
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The Art of Intimacy by Stacey D’Erasmo
Thomas McNeeley reviews Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE ART OF INTIMACY today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreThe Sky Below
A.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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