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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She serves as the Zona Gale Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the...
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This Week in Books: Licorice Candies
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an...
View ArticleEveryday Violence in Mariana Enríquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enríquez opens her debut collection, Things We Lost in the Fire, by recounting the story of Gauchito Gil, a popular saint in Argentina. After a stint in the army, Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez (the...
View ArticleWhen Theory and Fiction Collide: Savage Theories by Pola Oloixarac
Theory and fiction have a history. They’d been flirting with each other for centuries and now regularly engage in textual intercourse. Creative theorists cite Kafka and Borges as often as Kant or Freud...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Meghan Flaherty
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Meghan Flaherty about her debut memoir, Tango Lessons (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2018), how the book found its current format, and writing a memoir at a young age....
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
The New York Times profiles Books & Brews in Indianapolis. McNally Jackson Books, poster child for NYC businesses at the mercy of astronomical rent increases that force tenants out and leave...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
This week’s most beautiful bookstore is in Argentina. The Hudson Valley is about to get a second bar and bookstore combination shop, which might explain why Brooklyn’s literati keep moving upstate....
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mariana Dimópulos and Alice Whitmore
The Rumpus Book Club chats with author Mariana Dimópulos and translator Alice Whitmore about the innovative novel, All My Goodbyes (forthcoming from Transit Books on February 5, 2019), relativism,...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with María Sonia Cristoff and Katherine Silver
The Rumpus Book Club chats with author María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver about Cristoff’s innovative novel, Include Me Out (forthcoming from Transit Books on February 4, 2020),...
View Article“Do You Hearest?”: A Review of Ova Completa by Susana Thénon, tr. Rebekah Smith
A catalogue of contrarian possibility, Ova Completa is one of the final works by Argentine writer Susana Thénon (1935-1991). Ugly Duckling Presse has brought the collection out in a new bilingual...
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