WRITING AS A KIND OF WAKING DREAM
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don’t know and find something out.In his recent essay featured in The New Yorker, writer T. Coraghessan Boyle...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle
It’s hard to pick up T.C. Boyle’s new collection, Stories II, and not think about his place in modern literary history. For starters, Stories II is literally hard to pick up. Weighing in at a...
View ArticleA Fictionalized Betrayal
This was my first experience of being fictionalized. I still recall the yellow-white flash of queasiness, the mortification: a sense of powerlessness and an utter lack of recourse.What if a writer...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 3/28–4/3
Saturday 3/28: Monica McClure, Alexander Nemser, and Lewis Warsh read poetry. Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project, 2 p.m., free.Sunday 3/29: Anna Moschovakis, D. Marcus Johnson, Zahra “Raw Fiction”...
View ArticleThe Savagery of T.C. Boyle
So while there might be those out there who really want to elevate (and pigeonhole) Boyle as an important writer dedicating his career and talents to considering these seminal concerns of the American...
View ArticleUnlike Friends
All we knew was that Casper, with his genius IQ, his measured laugh, his wicked weltanschauung, was somebody really, really interesting to hang out with. A neighborhood kid like anybody else, only not...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Christian Kiefer
Christian Kiefer is a poet, musician, and author of the novels The Infinite Tides and, most recently, The Animals. The story of The Animals interweaves the lives of two boyhood friends, who, as young...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
Reading D. Foy is like stepping on a hornet nest—in the best way! His prose is topnotch, sonic and squalid and beautiful. He also knows how to spin a hell of a yarn. His new novel Patricide is a...
View ArticleClimate Fiction and the Great American Desert
You think water is a California apocalyptic obsession: Jack Nicholson and his slashed nose in Chinatown. After all, a fourth of the state is actual desert, the Mohave’s drought creeping up to the...
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