“Why don’t you dance with her?”
In the Guardian, novelist Ewan Morrison — whose newest novel is called Ménage — tosses out a list of literary ménages à trois, leading off with the Hemingway erotic novel (some would call it an...
View ArticleThe Journal Of Albion Moonlight
“Carol wants me to write a novel: ‘You’ve met so many interesting people,’ she tells me.Very good, there was a young man and he could never get his hands on enough women. That’s a novel.There was an...
View ArticleHenry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella I had no use for, but where I...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Gerald Stern
There’s a black and white photo in which the poet Stanley Kunitz lovingly holds Gerald Stern’s cheeks in both hands. It’s 1990. They’re looking into one another, and Kunitz says, “You’re the wilderness...
View ArticleRhona Cleary: The Last Book I Loved, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Was there ever a place greyer, wetter or lonelier than Paris in the fall?For an Irish person, that’s a weighty question to consider. I guess that in some other incarnation of myself I might have found...
View ArticleUnreliable Narrators
In reviewing RENEGADE: Henry Miller and the Making of “Tropic of Cancer,” Jeanette Winterson explores mythmaking in cultural criticism, unearthing who and what gets ignored in the process.“There is...
View ArticleHenry Miller’s Disgust for Brooklyn
Henry Miller hated Brooklyn almost as passionately as he loved Big Sur and dirty sex. In “Henry Miller, Brooklyn Hater,” Alexander Nazaryan takes a look at Miller’s lifelong contempt for the borough.In...
View ArticleWriting on Writing
Let’s face it, writers love to write about writing. Whether it’s for the beginning writer or the seasoned vet looking for a renewed sense of inspiration, check out the ten greatest essays on writing...
View ArticleStrange Waters
The water is warm and ankle-deep. My sisters and I swam in it six hours ago and I know it’s salty, but low tide in Cape Cod Bay is nothing you’d want to put in your mouth. That’s irrational, because...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major
The difficulty with interviewing Clarence Major is deciding where to begin. His long and varied career encompasses numerous literary and artistic movements here and abroad. As a painter, poet, and...
View ArticleThese Places Surround Me: Talking with Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo is the author of a story collection, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, and a novel, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, which traces the trajectories of an...
View ArticleA Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
One of the most subversive pleasures of the fantasy genre is that it lends readers room to imagine alternative storylines between its constructed worlds. For every canonical narrative, there are...
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