An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
Steven Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, falls into a fuzzily defined genre known as slipstream. This term, coined by sci-fi author Bruce Sterling in 1989, never really caught on partly because...
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What to Read When the Story Refuses to End
Once upon a time, I was a ballerina. This was before I saw that one glance at my mom—a robust woman of German stock—betrayed any such reality. Regardless of how coordinated or hardworking an Amazon...
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Notable Online: 5/2–5/9
Sunday 5/2: Ae Hee Lee, Francisco Aragón, Tina Cane, Kerrin McCadden, Dan Chiasson, and Kazim Ali, with guest host Wayne Miller, join the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, $6 suggested donation....
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Notable Online: 4/4–4/10
Sunday 4/4: Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Spencer Reece, Brad Richard, Grace Lau, Jennifer Franklin, and Matthew Lippman join guest host Kathleen Ossip for the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT,...
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What to Read When You Want Spooky Stories from Around the World
October is here, which means pumpkin-spice lattes, warm sweaters, and nonstop horror. No, not the horrors of a dystopian election and global pandemic—well, not just those. But a month to read and...
View ArticleGirl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks
In Quan Barry’s deliciously irreverent We Ride Upon Sticks, which turns every Brat Pack-era phallocentric trope on its head, the 1989 Danvers High School field hockey team parties like it’s 1699. Or...
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Magical Truth: A Conversation with Chloe N. Clark
Chloe N. Clark’s debut short story collection, Collective Gravities, situates characters on shifting ground or inside space vessels, beneath or within wide-open skies. Blending elements of folklore,...
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What to Read When You Want to Be Inspired by What Language Can Do
One of the profound pleasures as a writer is reading for the ways story and the writing are inseparable. I’m drawn to books that defy, blend, or bend categories. Such hybrids show what’s possible with...
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What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood
Mother’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, and often the celebrations it inspires reinforce our static and outdated ideas of what it means to be a mother and to have a mother rather than pushing against those...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 3/14–3/20
Thursday 3/14: The Reed College Visiting Writers Program presents Jess Arndt, author of Large Animals. Eliot Hall Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free. Reema Zaman reads for the launch of her new memoir, I Am...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 3/13–3/19
Wednesday 3/13: Head over to Vallejo for the book launch of Verses, Voices, and Visions of Vallejo. John F. Kennedy Library (Joseph Room) in Vallejo at 6:30 p.m. Mesha Maren will be reading from her...
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Notable NYC: 3/9–3/15
Saturday 3/9: Karen Hueler, Andrea Rothman, and Erika Swyler join Trumpet Fiction for “Cosima Smiled: Women Scientists in Fiction.” KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free. Ser Serpas and Park McArthur join the Segue...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we think it is especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...
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Toil and Trouble
At the end of the summer of 1974, President Nixon announced his resignation. The date was August 8, nearly a month after a woman named Teresita Angeles committed suicide. I might refrain from...
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What to Read When 2019 Is Just Around the Corner
It’s true that 2018 was another terrible year in so very many ways, but it was also a banner year for reading (find some of our favorite books from the year here and here). While we can’t promise that...
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What to Read When You’re a PEN Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes twelve emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine or cultural website last...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Renee Simms
I met Renee Simms in 2015 in Taos, New Mexico, at the summer retreat for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction where we are both fellows. I introduced myself to Renee, bringing greetings...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Carmen Maria Machado
Folklore, speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, magic realism, comedy, and erotica collide beautifully in the eight provocative short stories that make up Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story...
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book
Baby, it’s cold outside. When the holiday season ends, we’re left with the prospect of two or three months of dreary, gray days punctuated by snow bomb cyclones and unseasonably warm respites from the...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Carmen Maria Machado
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Carmen Maria Machado about her debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, her favorite horror writers and movies, and writing the book(s) she’s always wanted to...
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