What Is an Anthem
A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.**I asked a person I was in love with to read to me the first poem in Archicembalo, “Who Is Josquin des Prez.” We were...
View ArticleHey, We Do This Too
We’re not the only ones out there curious to know where and writers write and why.This week the Chicago Tribune spoke to bestselling and award winning authors to get the lowdown on the digs most...
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Unfuck the World”
The most prominent feature of Burn Your Fire For No Witness is the haunting voice of Angel Olsen. The St. Louis-bred singer’s husky tone sounds a bit like Cat Power with an exposed nerve. Though Olsen...
View ArticleLike Thoreau, But Not
Writers for generation have sought out the solitude of the wilderness to get their work done. But sometimes it’s not as romantic as we hope.Related Posts:Fact or Fiction?The Great GorskyThe Most...
View ArticleOne of the Crowd
12,000 members of the literary community/industry gathered in LA for AWP last week.Viet Thanh Nguyen considers the writer’s sometimes conflicting needs for audience, privacy, and the tribe. He writes...
View ArticleOut the Road
She said this road we were on led nowhere. But I wasn’t a fool and had been with girls like her before. Long before reaching it, I knew about the end.This particular Alaskan tarmac was called Out the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao
Of the many things we are taught as young children, the ability to navigate grief is often overlooked. It’s something more learned through experience, a quality that we may indirectly witness others...
View ArticleSilence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson
In an early draft of his latest book, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, Fenton Johnson was profiling the homes and studios he visited of various solitary artists. As the...
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