Perfunctory Rebellion
Over at BOMB, A.L. Stein sits down with Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, to chat about metaphysics, attachments, and her relationship with the normative:“The normative/transgressive dichotomy is...
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We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?Lydia Davis has thirteen new poems at BOMB, and they show what Lydia Davis does best:...
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The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Bauman
Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a Pynchon-esque shaggy dog of a novel spanning nearly eight decades of American history, from World War II to the not-too-distant future. Centered around the exploits of...
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, Dark Archive, Murmur, Subject, After I Was Dead, The Tales of Horror, and The...
View ArticleThe Novel as a Character
At Lit Hub, an excerpt from a vivid, metaphor-rich conversation that appears in the spring issue of BOMB Magazine in which Christopher Sorrentino calls the novel an “impoverished count, living in a...
View ArticleDon’t Let Anyone Tell You They Weren’t Real
The collection both questions and honors a world in which we form emotional bonds to characters who exist for us mostly, or entirely, through various technological projections.Writing for BOMB, David...
View ArticleThe Other John Reed
Writer John Reed is a genre buster. His new book, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, is a collection of sonnets about love scenarios mostly gone amok, which he began sharing on Facebook some...
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Revolution Books in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood is exploiting Trump’s election to raise money for a fight against fascism. People in Japan value neighborhood bookstores so much that local...
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Atomic Comb-over
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When the Healing Place Exploded
“I am good. Ana mnih. ANA MNIH. MAMA. ANA MNIH. KHALTOU. ANA MNIH.” These are the messages my brother-in-law, Rami, sent on the family Whatsapp group between 6:08 p.m. and 6:09 p.m. Beirut time, right...
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