“Let’s Talk About Us” (Tonight!)
This September’s Rumpus event is the ultimate San Francisco literary collaboration. We’re teaming us with The Believer Magazine to bring you a night of literary joy! Join us September 12th…
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Tonight in Brooklyn!
Whatcha doin tonight, Brooklyn? There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the storm than going to this Believer Magazine event at Public Assembly. It’s a celebration of the…
Announcing the 2011 Music Issue of the Believer !!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2011 Music Issue of the Believer Magazine is upon us. This year’s issue has got some unprecedented audible sensations, which I will relay in the following…
The Rumpus Interview with Chris Bachelder
Novelist Chris Bachedler discusses crafting his latest book, Abbott Awaits, about a self-conscious professor.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/6-12/12
This week in San Francisco, Granta at City Lights, literature meets food at Feast of Words and to-the-death battle at Literary Death Match, and Believer Magazine hangs out at Electric…
Some Notes on Lyricism
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated…
Why Read Nonfiction?
Over at The Utne Reader, Keith Goetzman asks a question originally posed by John D’Agata, “Do we read (nonfiction) to receive information, or do we read it to experience art?”
A Bosnian Novelist And An Irish Novelist Walk Into A Bar
If you have any doubts about the power of the novel, or its lasting cultural significance, or its transcendent ability to deepen and enrich our chaotic earthly experiences, look no…
A Special Case of Plagiarism
Earlier today Chris blogged about a guy who’s translating Moby-Dick into emoji. Which reminded me of something. Recently one of our favorite writers, Damion Searls, was pondering a 2007 abridgment…
Rebecca Solnit on Writing What Matters
In The Believer, Rebecca Solnit gives some advice I hope to someday learn to follow completely: “Apolitical is a political position, yes, and a dreary one. The choice by a lot…
The Sunday Rumpus Books Supplement
This week, Rumpus books published a review of a story collection by Greg Gerke, an interview with Benjamin Anastas, a Rumpus Reprint by our own Stephen Elliott, and an exclusive…
What It All Means
Video for a previously unreleased song by Sam Phillips, which appears on The Believer‘s July/August 2009 Music Issue CD entitled “Fantastic and Spectacular,” which was compiled by Daniel Handler.