zadie smith

  • Notable NYC: 1/21–1/27

    Saturday 1/21: Women’s March on New York City. Resist. On Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St and 2nd Ave, 11 am, free. Eléna River, Ryan Collerd, and Carol Snow discuss works of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Mahogany L…

  • Notable NYC: 1/14–1/20

    Saturday 1/14: Carol Becker, Luisa Greenfield, Akil Kirlew, Caroline Koebel, Mark Roth, Morgan O’Hara, and Rachel Stevens celebrate the release of the latest issue of ELSE Journal. Powerhouse, 6 p.m., free. Carrie Bennett, Aimee Harrison, Marco Maisto, Kevin Mclellan, and…

  • HORN! REVIEWS: NW

    HORN! REVIEWS: NW

    This is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.

  • The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

    The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

    Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He…

  • Notable NYC: 12/10–12/16

    Saturday 12/10: Mike Albo, Sandra Bauleo, Alexander Chee, Marcy Dermansky, Natalie Diaz, Elif Batuman, Angela Flournoy, Jill Hennessy, Alice Sola Kim, Téa Obreht, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul Sehgal, Jamil Smith, Rob Spillman, Emma Straub, Peter Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan,…

  • Notable NYC: 12/3–12/9

      Saturday 12/3: Natalie Diaz and T’ai Freedom Ford join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/4: Jonathan Lethem discusses Italo Calvino. The Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., $8. Alexandra Kleeman and Kelly Luce join the Sunday…

  • Dancing about Writing

    At the Guardian, Zadie Smith writes about why dance is important for her and for her writing: The connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel I want to keep open. It feels a little neglected—compared…

  • Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides in Conversation

    I only have a curiosity, an interest, a love, and that’s it, really. At the New Yorker, Michele Moses shares a video clip from the 2016 New Yorker Festival featuring writers Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides in conversation about their…

  • Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #29: Literary Bitches

    Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #29: Literary Bitches

    All too often, it gets hurled at strong women like a boulder of hate tied up with a big red misogynistic bow.

  • Brex Mix

    There has been a lot of great writing about Brexit published in the past couple of weeks, but don’t let Zadie Smith’s incisive reflections pass you by: This inconvenient working-class revolution we are now witnessing has been accused of stupidity—I cursed…

  • Not Quite Human

    For the second time that day, then, I waited in the dark for something not quite human—and all too human—to begin. If you haven’t seen Charlie Kaufman’s new film Anomalisa, we highly recommend that you do. And then after, read…

  • The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Angela Flournoy

    The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Angela Flournoy

    My ambition is personal. I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed.