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The Rumpus Interview with Adrian Van Young
There is something about the stories of Adrian Van Young that feels of another age. You might open the pages of his debut collection, The Man Who Noticed Everything, without looking at the cover, and...
View ArticleLiterary Puns, Halloween-Style
If you like Timothy Leo Taranto’s literary puns here on the Rumpus, you’ll also enjoy these Halloween-themed literary puns over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.Written and illustrated by Rumpus contributor Lincoln...
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren
Eric Lundgren’s layered and exciting debut novel, The Facades, has invited a lot of comparisons. Jon Michaud described it as one of the “bastard offspring of Dashiell Hammett and Jorge Luis Borges,”...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 11/30–12/6
Saturday 12/7: Natalie Eilbert, Mike Bushnell, Rob Ostrom, and Christie Ann Reynolds inaugurate the Banquet reading series with an evening of poetry. Eilbert is the founder and editor of The Atlas...
View Article#candylit Sweetens the Twittersphere
This past weekend, an event of historical import occurred: the #candylit hashtag on Twitter.Started by Lincoln Michel with a “Fall of the House of Gushers” pun, it combined book titles with the names...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About the American South
The latest issue of Guernica is out, and it’s a doozy. The special issue—the first of 4 such issues funded by a Kickstarter campaign—takes on the American South. Features include novelist Kiese Laymon...
View ArticleFiction is Fiction
What does “realism” mean, anyway? Over at Ploughshares, Rumpus contributor and Gigantic magazine editor Lincoln Michel discusses the problems of the term “realism” when it comes to literature:I tend to...
View ArticlePortrait of the Author as a Debut Novelist
Over at BuzzFeed Books, Lincoln Michel asks Alena Graedon, Scott Cheshire, Julia Fierro, and D. Foy, who all just released their first novel, to talk about their writing influences, literary...
View ArticleA Library’s Trash
Mark Luce, who teaches literature and history at the Barstow School in Kansas City, has a new column at Electric Literature, reviewing books that he and the school’s librarian have recently removed...
View ArticleThe Twin Peaks Project
As reported by Lincoln Michel at Electric Literature, Shya Scanlon has launched The Twin Peaks Project, which invites authors to write about the influence of David Lynch’s television show. The...
View ArticleBooks Are Here to Stay
Many people who buy exclusively e-books still like to browse in physical bookstores and look at physical books.The printed book is far from dead.At BuzzFeed Books, Lincoln Michel has an essay on the...
View ArticleLiterary Product Placement
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire isn’t native advertising for Sparkling ICE and Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey… but a brand manager can dream.Over at Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel wonders...
View ArticleCan Literature Improve Your Life?
Electric Literature features a video from The School of Life that addresses some ways literature can improve your life. Related Posts:Literary Product PlacementThe Twin Peaks ProjectA Library’s...
View Article2014: The Year of the Debut
Though he admits that “it can be a little silly to sum up an entire year of books,” Electric Literature’s Lincoln Michel suggests that “2014 might be the year of the debut.”Related Posts:This Week in...
View ArticleI Can’t Quit You
Readers stop reading a book they enjoy when they put it down and forget to come back. Readers finish books they hate when they are assigned it for book clubs or else they want to hate-read and laugh...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Literary Future
BuzzFeed has announced an “Emerging Writers Fellowship,” to be headed-up by its new Literary Editor, Saeed Jones. Get the details in Jones’s interview with Electric Literature.Related Posts:Broke and...
View ArticleNeither Seen Nor Heard
When it comes to the slush pile, nobody wins: writers lose money submitting into a void while editors lose time skimming work that barely resembles their publication’s criteria. Lincoln Michael offers...
View ArticleAre Romance Novels Ruining Subscription Services?
All-you-can-read subscription services are finding that readers of romance novels are heavy users. The service Scribd is removing some romance titles because voracious sex-fiends are reading too many...
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The Rumpus Book Club Presents… (With a Special Offer)
There’s never been a better time to join The Rumpus Book Club, either by the month or by the year. If you join now, we’ll throw in a bonus: your choice of the Rumpus Tote Bag or the Rumpus Quotes Mug!...
View ArticleAmerican Horror Fiction
How we ended up in those backwoods hills was Iris said we needed to ‘get a little air,’ and Dolan added, ‘country air!’ and that was that. Iris was my lover, and Dolan was her roommate I’d never liked....
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