What to Read When the Story Refuses to End
Jen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME.
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Posts Tagged: Ursula K. Le Guin
A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn
Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
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Until Democracy Falls: Talking with Matthew Baker
Matthew Baker discusses his new story collection, WHY VISIT AMERICA.
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The Power of the Crone: Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare
Sweet, nurturing, platitude-accepting granny Le Guin is not.
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Both Ways at Once: Talking with Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Word for World Is Forest
…and the word for dream is root.
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How I Learned to Hope Again
And in order to hope, I have to once more believe—in the midst of unrelenting dark—that light exists even if I cannot see it.
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2018
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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Ursula K. Le Guin: A Poet’s Legacy
Help publish Ursula K. Le Guin’s final collection of poetry!
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The Thread: Volcanoes
Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book
Rumpus editors share their favorite winter reads.
...moreThe Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to… Kenny G
Rumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
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Between Autonomy and Powerlessness: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Women’s bodies signify so much, both to ourselves and others, that inhabiting them and having ownership over them often feel like two different states of being.
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Hitch in the Voice
I hear a man singing for his life, desperate in a way he would never be again and had never been before.
...moreAlbum of the Week: Call It Love by Briana Marela
Call It Love is Briana Marela’s third album, and her first after signing with Jagjaguwar. In the album’s ten tracks, the Seattleite explores the many facets of love, from its early sweet moments to the ending of a relationship, with a detour inspired by the book The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin. “I write […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Julie Buntin
Julie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, the writers and books that influenced it, tackling addiction with compassion, and the magic of teenage girls.
...moreSteering Clear of “McMagic”
At the New Yorker, an elegant and comprehensive essay by Julie Phillips from a visit with Ursula Le Guin at her home in Portland, Oregon touches on the importance of place, both geographic and imaginative. Phillips writes, “[Le Guin] has always defended the fantastic, by which she means not formulaic fantasy or “McMagic” but the imagination […]
...moreImagining Orsinia
I begin to find my way about, to feel myself at home, here in Orsenya, matrya miya, my motherland. I can live here, and find out who else lives here and what they do, and tell stories about it. And so I did. Over at the Paris Review, read an excerpt from the author’s introduction to Ursula […]
...moreDoors to Other Possibilities
I think what has brought imaginative fiction, imaginative literature, back into central centrality is that so much of it is very good, and so much of it is kind of needed because of the fact that it sort of opens doors to other possibilities—and that it gives the imagination exercise. The imagination is a very […]
...morePoetics on the Radio
This is where poetry approaches music. Because you cannot put meaning in words as intellectually comprehensible. It’s just there, and you know it’s there. And it is the rhythm and the beat and the music of the sound that carries it. To me, that is extremely mysterious, and rightly so. Between the Covers podcast host David […]
...moreGoogle vs. Author’s Guild
The fight against Google’s digital library continues, and this time the effort has support from big-name authors like Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Malcolm Gladwell, Peter Carey, and J. M. Coetzee. The case against Google making millions of books—many of them still under copyright protection—searchable online without paying for any licenses to do so goes […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
...moreThe Sound of Prose
You can’t find your own voice, unless you’re listening for it. In a thoughtful interview with radio host David Naimon, the lovely and wise Ursula K. Le Guin talks about her newly revised writing manual, Steering the Craft; the sound and skeletons of sentences; and the intersection of language and society. It’s a must-listen!
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Fresh Comics #4: Making Babies!
Aside from defecating or having sex, giving birth is one of the most common life experiences. Half of the world’s population is capable of doing it and every single one of us has been through it, even if we have no memory of it. But for all the comics out there that recount the tales […]
...moreLe Guin Will Answer Writers’ Questions
At 86, Ursula K. Le Guin says she doesn’t have the stamina for writing novels or teaching workshops anymore. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to share her knowledge and experience with others. Writers can now submit questions of 200 words or less to Le Guin, and she will answer the ones she feels compelled by: […]
...moreAre Books Getting Dumber Because We Want Them To?
Over at Bloomberg View, Stephen L. Carter examines the Amazon of the Victorian era, a book distributor named Charles Edward Mudie, and how readers are really to blame for literary fiction’s struggle to find a readership. Carter writes about Mudie in response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s post at Book View Cafe arguing that Amazon […]
...moreUrsula Le Guin Eschews Amazon in Favor of Healthy Diet
Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is. I believe that reading only packaged microwavable fiction ruins the taste, destabilizes the moral blood pressure, and makes the mind obese. Author Ursula K. Le Guin minces no words in a scathing blog […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Byrne
Monica Byrne talks about sex, gender, the insidious power of stereotypes, and putting relationships between women at the center of her novel, The Girl in the Road.
...moreHere There (May or May Not) Be Dragons
Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel The Buried Giant has reignited debates about genre fiction following Ishiguro’s implication that the work isn’t fantasy. The author has since clarified which side he’s really on. Meanwhile, Flavorwire‘s Jonathon Sturgeon defends Ishiguro’s right to call the book whatever he wants: To use some of Le Guin’s own logic: we still […]
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