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The Rest Of The Media
Eliot Spitzer’s going to write a column about sex work for Slate.com (kidding, it’s about government).Tina Brown, who almost sank The New Yorker, is barrelling through millions to build The Daily...
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Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: A Review?
Dear twelve undergraduates assigned to read this text and in search of a digestible synopsis—Dear two lit-crit geeks up late at night who found this by googling John Barth—Dear three writers of...
View ArticleGraywolf Press Needs your Help!
Books sales cover only 50 percent of Graywolf’s expenses, which is why they are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to build a new and much improved website.Features on Graywolf’s...
View ArticleSmall Presses, Big Impact
The silver lining of the publishing industry’s turmoil is that independent small presses are increasingly able to bring readers unique and fascinating books.Flavorwire’s Jason Diamond has collected...
View ArticleTiny Press Grows Big
Graywolf Press has evolved from a tiny, small press into a powerhouse with critically acclaimed as well as best selling titles. Vulture takes a look at Graywolf’s evolution, exploring how publisher...
View ArticleOn Visibility and Middle-Aged Women
Over at Lit Hub, Dorthe Nors discusses writing about middle aged women who, on the verge of becoming invisible to a society that only values women as mothers or as sex objects, refuse to disappear:The...
View ArticleOn Publishers Big and Small
At the Atlantic, Nathan Scott McNamara provides an optimistic view of the symbiotic relationship between massive corporate publishers and small indie houses. Profiling energetic presses like Graywolf,...
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Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom
Everything is in motion: snow, water, air, trees, clouds, wind, cities, villages, people, thoughts.In Rosa Liksom’s Compartment No. 6, first published in Finnish and now translated by Lola Rogers and...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with David Rivard
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with David Rivard about his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.This is an edited transcript...
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter
Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta Books and an award-winning bookseller. His debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, examines the lives of a father of two boys after the sudden, accidental...
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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang
Most writers can attest to the difficulty of putting the figurative pen to page. I often rationalize it as the byproduct of our quirky charm, our heads perennially in the clouds, capable of performing...
View ArticleNative Poetry
Over at the North American Review, Heid E. Erdrich writes about the forthcoming New Poets of Native Nations. The collection, which will be published by Graywolf Press in 2018, will feature works from...
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The Rumpus Interview with Belle Boggs
At thirty-two, Belle Boggs waited for the right time to tell her gynecologist that she didn’t want to take birth control pills anymore and that she planned to get pregnant. Boggs’s thoughts then turned...
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Poem of the Day: “Social Skills Training” by Solmaz Sharif
Social Skills TrainingStudies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What’s the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No...
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Longtime magazine editor Terry McDonell is more the director of his new memoir than he is its star. This is in no way a slight as The Accidental Life’s ensemble cast includes Hunter S. Thompson, Peter...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best...
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What to Read When the President Cuts Funding for Everything Good
Yesterday morning, Trump’s administration released their proposed budget. While additional programs may also be on the chopping block, programs specifically named in the proposal include after-school...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Carmen Maria Machado
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Carmen Maria Machado about her debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, her favorite horror writers and movies, and writing the book(s) she’s always wanted to...
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Why I Chose Registers of Illuminated Villages for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
In the Notes section of Tarfia Faizullah’s second collection, Registers of Illuminated Villages, out in March from Graywolf Press, she writes that epigraph for the title poem wouldn’t exist without a...
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An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected...
Between 2001, when The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems was first published, and now, Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize and died. It seems reasonable, then, to rerelease the volume with...
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