The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Before I say anything about book blog land today, I want to thank Brian Spears, our Poetry and Saturday Editor here at The Rumpus, for putting together some of the best information on Haiti I’ve been...
View ArticleBook Publishing Hierarchy
We also make an exception for a list if it’s really funny, and we’re on it. Hence: Paul Bogaards’ “Hierarchy of Book Publishing: The Top 100.”Related Posts:First AgentThe Hurdles Of Rejection The...
View ArticleGreat Book Dedications!
Here are 30 book dedications that are probably just as good as the book.Included in this amazing round up are Tobias Wolff, John Steinbeck, Charles Bukowski, and C.S. Lewis.Here is one from A...
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A List of Concerns
Erica Trabold’s “A List of Concerns” was selected by Thomas Page McBee as the winner of the third annual Payton Prize, which seeks to honor one excellent nonfiction essay each year in memory of Payton...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
The listing impulse in music criticism is, well, hard to like. Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, ruined it, perhaps, at a time when it was going to be ruined anyway by reason of overuse. The...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
I met Stephen Van Dyck when we were both MFA students at CalArts. It was 2008; for me, the internet still felt sort of mysterious. For Stephen, it was well traveled terrain. In his new book, People...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Kadetsky’s writing since I read her fiction for the first time in our graduate school writing workshop. I was particularly drawn to the stories she wrote after a summer...
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