The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Martin Seay
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Martin Seay about his debut novel The Mirror Thief, the Great Work of alchemy, researching optical prosthetics, and keeping plot lines straight in a 600-page novel.
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Posts Tagged: Umberto Eco
The Rumpus Interview with Jedediah Berry
Author Jedediah Berry talks about interactivity in fiction, the various forms a story can take, and his goals in founding his own press.
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Umberto Eco, at a public appearance in the UK to support Numero Zero, imparted some choice thoughts on what makes literature, and on what makes his distinct, from conspiracies and public knowledge to literary losers: It’s very boring to talk about winners. The real literature always talks about losers. Madame Bovary is a loser. Julien Sorel […]
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Alexander Maksik’s debut novel You Deserve Nothing reshapes an old story—predatory teacher and young student.
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Winter has finally come to south Florida, by which I mean it’s a nipple-hardening 51 degrees Fahrenheit as I type this and you can discern the locals from the transplants by the size (or lack) of the coats they’re wearing. Quoting Catullus in a text message can get you into trouble, depending on what part […]
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