Alice Munro Round-Up
As you may have heard by now, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature!If you are not familiar with Munro’s work, Slate has a list of her best stories to read first.Find out why The New Yorker...
View ArticleChekov’s Journalism
For the New Yorker, Akhil Sharma discusses why Anton Chekov’s Sakhalin Island stands as the best piece of journalism produced in the nineteenth-century.Related Posts:The World of Mommy...
View ArticleOpen Endings
From Chekhov to Woolf, to Colin Barrett and Eliza Robertson, the Guardian explores unresolved endings in short stories.Related Posts:The Best Year in LiteratureLibrary QueriesShort Story LongMystery...
View ArticleNo Hope
Rumpus Interviews Editor Ben Pfeiffer discusses the complete loss of hope in Anton Chekhov’s literary works, in relation to modern TV shows such as The Leftovers and The Walking Dead. Pfeiffer wonders...
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Suit
I want to give you a suit, my grandfather said to me one morning in his house in Tulsa. Come into the closet over here. I was visiting from Vermont during the winter. He was nearly eighty and still...
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The Lonely Voice #32: The Last Lonely Voice
I began this column in 2008 at a pretty rough time in my life. And ever since, periodically, some of you have read (listened to? for some reason I like the idea that when something is read, I mean...
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Taking Control and Staking a Claim: Erin Adair-Hodges’s Let’s All Die Happy
If one of the secrets to comedy is timing, then one of the secrets to comedy in poetry must be control over rhythm and form, those timekeepers of the reading act. Or so it seems from reading Erin...
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Revolution Was Coming: A Conversation with Rabeah Ghaffari
When I met Rabeah Ghaffari, filmmaker, writer, and actress, for dinner at Sofreh, a Persian restaurant in Prospect Heights, she seemed to know everyone there. “I’ve known [owner] Nasim and her husband...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves
The news cycle is such that the world, it seems, has entirely turned over since late autumn, when Bob Dylan released the various anthologies (plural because of multiple formats) entitled More Blood,...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
I read Lara Vapnyar’s first novel, Memoirs of a Muse, when it came out in 2006. At the time, the Russian-American author who, by her own admission, did not even dream of being a writer just a few years...
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My Kyiv
We got yelled at in the supermarket in Kyiv last summer. “Hey! This is some bullshit!” a woman cried, as we cut in front of her in the checkout line. Stout with a granite face, she glared at us over...
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What to Read When You Want to Know What Your Doctor Is Really Thinking
Of all the cringeworthy episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, for me the cringeworthiest includes the scene where Larry David, stuck waiting in an exam room, uses the doctor’s phone to call a friend. The...
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