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Rumpus Original – The Best of NOT 2008
We asked for the best books people read this year NOT published in 2008. We did this because even writers rarely read more than a handful of books actually published that year. Usually the best books...
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The Toss of a Lemon
From the Washington Post: “While The Toss of a Lemon, has at its heart a 10-year-old Brahmin girl who marries an ill-fated man, its ambitions transcend culture and country to reach for the nature of...
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The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
It’s a tricky thing, a memoir of a death: you know how it’s going to end. The challenge for the writer (not only with regard to the conclusion) is making the inevitable unknown. At this, Robin Romm...
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Reading in the New Year
Welcome to 2011! What do we call this decade, anyway? Who will win the Super Bowl? What will become of health care reform? How many New York City snowplows does it take to screw in a light bulb?Some...
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The Rumpus Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir
I met Kristín Ómarsdóttir last summer at the Banff Center, where she was in residence. She is a critically acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction, and theatre, but little-known in the English world until...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Cody Epstein
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment is Jennifer Cody Epstein’s second novel. Her first, The Painter from Shanghai, imagined the life of Pan Yuliang, a Chinese painter of perceptive and richly decorative...
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The Rumpus Interview with Catherine Bush
Accusation is Canadian writer Catherine Bush’s fourth novel. Her books—the prior ones are Claire’s Head, The Rules of Engagement, and Minus Time—are structurally daring and psychologically penetrating....
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The Rumpus Interview with Ania Szado
Ania Szado says she first thought she might be onto something when her fourth-grade teacher falsely accused her of plagiarizing a famous writer. Still, it took more than a decade—including four years...
View ArticleNext Letter in the Mail: Padma Viswanathan
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from writer Padma Viswanathan! In her letter, Padma writes about her aim as a writer and why writers write, empathy and compassion,...
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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
Ashwin Rao, the solitary, emotionally detached psychologist in Padma Viswanathan’s ruminative new novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, practices an esoteric variety of psychotherapy known as narrative...
View ArticleDedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Padma Viswanathan
DedicateYourNoTrumpVote.com is home to a growing collection of voters who are thinking beyond the individual and dedicating their votes as acts of hope for the future. This brand new website includes a...
View ArticleWe Are Each Other’s Spiders
Permit me to note before I begin that I am generally no gusher. It’s more fun to write criticism than praise, and the hyperbolic rhapsodizing common to contemporary book reviews can make me a little...
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Rumpus Interview With Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit’s 2003 book, River of Shadows, was about the 19th century photographer Eadward Muybridge. Muybridge produced, for the first time in history, still images of a body in motion, showing...
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