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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Melissa Febos
In Whip Smart, Melissa Febos unflinchingly chronicles five years in her early twenties when she was a dominatrix and heroin user. But the book is about so much more than those details.
The Rumpus Book Club Discussion with George Saunders
The Rumpus Book Club chats with George Saunders about Tenth of December, sudden celebrity, why escalation matters if you’re a writer, and how to stick with a story
The Rumpus Interview with Constance Hale
Constance Hale, who has been called “Marion the Librarian on a Harley, or E. B. White on acid," talks verbs, literacy in the Digital Age, and why "it’s wrongheaded to think that the path to glory is only through standard English."
Some Things To Remember While You’re Writing
“There is no shame in writing slow. Your writing takes as long to develop as it takes. Writing is not a race.” Click through to read this and other gentle…
Exercises in Style
Exercises in Style has been one of the most beloved books in the New Directions catalog since they first published it in 1981.
The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel
Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel, the co-editors of Recommended Reading, discuss the ins and outs of editing an ambitious literary project.
The Rumpus Interview with Zadie Smith
For our first interview of 2013, we sit down with the incomparable Zadie Smith for a thoughtful chat about identity, the pleasure of reading, and how to write honestly about the state of humanity.
Think. Don’t Write.
“’I write every waking minute,’ I said. I meant, of course, that I am always writing in my head.” At Draft, novelist and teacher Silas House reflects on the practice…
The Rumpus Interview with Thaisa Frank
The place was called the Library Bar, but there weren't many books and there were no drinks at that hour. So we had to sit there bookless and drinkless. It was awkward in a fabulous way. The whole thing felt like a Thaisa Frank story—the event seemed to float above reality as we talked about things like the insanity of writing a book...
Writers: Victims of a Dying Industry or Myopic Whiners?
“Writers have always been whiners,” begins Stephen Marche’s essay in the latest issue of Esquire. Fighting words! Brandish your swords! Then he describes the proliferation of excellent writing (both fiction…