Steve Almond Archives - The Rumpus

Morally complicating your world view: A Conversation with Steve Almond

With fiction, you’re trying to get people emotionally attached to your characters, not to learn a lesson. Ideally, [readers] get emotionally attached to the characters and those characters’ experiences leave them, in the end, feeling more than they did before.

Notable New York

Notable NYC: 6/15–6/21

Literary events in and around NYC this week!

Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 4/18–4/24

Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!

Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett

Author Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.

What to Read When It’s Time for Sports

Just a "heads up" (as they say in the sports world): this isn't your average sports list.

Other

Notable Portland: 1/12–1/18

Friday 1/13: Franz Nicolay reads from his anarcho-leftist memoir debut, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control and is joined afterwards in conversation by Cari Luna, author of The Revolution of…

Rumpus Original

You Had Me at Beheading: The Author of Against Football Responds to Selected Hate Mail

Other

Drivel Delivered

Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing By Your Favorite Authors, contains exactly what its title promises. The book came out last fall, but Lit Hub just posted a few excerpts, including a comic…

Rumpus Original

Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Liz Prato

Liz Prato talks about her debut story collection, Baby's on Fire, why she enjoys the process of revision, and what the phrase "literary citizenship" means to her.

Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Julia MacDonnell

Julia was one of those “students” whom you suspect, after maybe fifteen seconds, should actually be teaching the class you are currently (allegedly) teaching.

HORN! REVIEWS: Against Football

It's Ronald Reagan's dream: A taxpayer-funded monopoly run by a bunch of assholes.

Other

More Sunday Links

Friday was one of those days where it felt like way too many threads had come unraveled from the thrift-store sweater of my life and were just tangled in an…

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