Janet Malcolm on a Small Body of Early Twentieth Century Fiction
Janet Malcolm reaches into the archives of her childhood and discusses a hardly-known American novelist in an essay from the New York Review of Books. Malcolm reviews seven novels by Gene...
View ArticleForty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm
1Janet Malcolm’s latest book, a collection of her essays on artists and writers, is titled Forty-One False Starts after the opening profile on the artist David Salle. Malcolm mimics Salle’s collages...
View ArticleThe Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I discovered The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm’s portrait of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, last fall and read it in just one sitting, the book in one hand and a champagne flute of white wine in the other....
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
This Sunday, Ted Wilson turned five. Happy anniversary, Ted!In the latest “Last Book I Loved,” Michelle King finds a kindred spirit in Sylvia Plath, who, the first time she kissed husband Ted Hughes,...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kathleen Ossip
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kathleen Ossip about her new book, The Do Over, Catholic school, the afterlife, poem-like things and how form sets sorely-needed limits.This is an edited...
View ArticleDrawing Close to the Void: Talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell
In Patty Yumi Cottrell’s first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s, March 2017), the narrator investigates the suicide of her adoptive brother. Helen is thirty-two. Her brother was...
View ArticleReading Other People’s Mail: Talking with Michelle Dean
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, Michelle Dean’s debut book, forthcoming in April from Grove Press, is a sort of fantasy: it’s a chronicle of literary history, from the early...
View ArticleBridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland
While studying for her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, Jenn Shapland got to live out a fantasy of literary scholars everywhere: she was granted access to the abundant archive of writers’ and...
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