And the Winner Is…
After a month of victories and losses and thrilling deliberation, the Morning News‘s Tournament of Books has chosen a champion: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson!The harrowing, North Korea–set...
View ArticleMagical Influences
Lev Grossman has given the Harry Potter series an inspirational nod more than once, and he does it again over at Vulture. But he’s just as fond of The Bourne Identity, Marcel Proust, and the music of...
View ArticleA Family Affair
I always think of you as a more novelistic novelist than I am. I’m not predisposed to like poetry. I’m not the kind of person who thinks of poetry as charming or who says of something, “it’s like...
View ArticleOut of the Binders and Into the Refrigerators
The success of The Magicians trilogy stems in part from its self-awareness. Lev Grossman wields his familiarity with fantasy genre fiction to critique and alter the usual formula. So why do his female...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lev Grossman
To read Lev Grossman’s Magicians series is to be transported. Grossman is a world-builder of the highest order, capable of creating and interconnecting a seemingly infinite number of landscapes, real...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 10/18–10/24
Saturday 10/18: Poetry Forum 2014. The New School, 10 a.m., $45 daily / $135 full pass.Melissa Buckheit reads poetry along with Corollary Press founder Sueyeun Juliette Lee. Berl’s Poetry Shop.Happy...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 12/20–12/26
Saturday 12/20: Adam Gopnik, Mike Albo, Jami Attenberg, Charles Bock, Alexander Chee, Scott Cheshire, Ashley Ford, Lev Grossman, Rahawa Haile, Jazmine Hughes, Leslie Jamison, Bennett Madison, Ayana...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 3/7–3/13
Saturday 3/7: Cynthia Daignault and Joseph Mosconi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., free.Sunday 3/8: Ashley C. Ford, Daniel Jose Older, and Cynthia Cruz launch a new discussion series, The...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 4/4–4/10
Saturday 4/4: Dorothea Lasky, Lisa Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kate Zambreno, Marie Buck, and Gary Indiana celebrate the latest from Animal Shelter. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.Lola Calise, Ian...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 6/20–6/26
Saturday 6/20: Paige Taggart, Rickey Laurentiis, Jackie Clark, Dawn Raffel, Kait Heacock, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Naomi Extra, Kashana Cauley, Mensah Demary, Ryan Sartor, Mack Gelber, Tracy O’Neill, Niina...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 9/10–9/16
DON’T MISS OUR BOOKEND EVENTS! On Monday, 9/12, The Rumpus and the Brooklyn Book Festival present the New York premiere of After Adderall, the new feature film from Stephen Elliott. Videology, 7 p.m.,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 9/17–9/23
Sunday 9/18: Join the Rumpus at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The Rumpus is table 238 in front of the courthouse steps. Multiple stages and venues host the best writers and book lovers in the borough....
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Notable NYC: 1/14–1/20
Saturday 1/14: Carol Becker, Luisa Greenfield, Akil Kirlew, Caroline Koebel, Mark Roth, Morgan O’Hara, and Rachel Stevens celebrate the release of the latest issue of ELSE Journal. Powerhouse, 6 p.m.,...
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Notable NYC: 5/13–5/19
Sunday 5/14: Juliana Huxtable presents Mucus in My Pineal Gland along with Diamond Stingily and Andrew Durbin. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Wendy Xu, Tobias Carroll, Jimn Han, Jeanann Verlee,...
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Notable NYC: 9/9–9/15
Saturday 9/9: Jessie Chaffee, Julia Fierro, Lev Grossman, Luis Jamarillo, Lisa Ko, Rob Spillman, Justin Taylor, Rakesh Satyal, Tracy O’Neill, Elissa Schappell, and Porochista Khakpour join SLICE...
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Notable NYC: 10/14–10/20
Saturday 10/14: Cheswayo Mphanza and Akeema-Zane join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Lex Axelrod, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Miranda Field, Lynn Melnick, sam sax, and Erica Wright join Leah...
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Notable NYC: 7/21–7/27
Saturday 7/21: Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Maya Kosoff, Eva Victor, Melissa Rocha, and Lizzie Martinez join the Funny / Sexy / Sad reading series. Branch Ofc, 4 p.m., free. Monday 7/23: Jason Sokol presents...
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Notable NYC: 3/16–3/22
Saturday 3/16: Ser Spears and Park McArthur join the Segue Series. NYU Einstein Auditorium, 4:30 p.m., $5. Monday 3/18: Siri Hustvedt presents Memories of the Future. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 7 p.m.,...
View ArticleFood in Times of Need: Eat Joy edited by Natalie Eve Garrett
In the introduction to Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, editor Natalie Eve Garrett writes about how she associates taste and food with some of her most difficult...
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Notable Online: 8/30–9/5
Monday 8/31: Christina Baker Kline presents The Exiles. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free. Alyssa Cole and Beverly Jenkins discuss When No One Is Watching. Loyalty Books via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. EDT, free. Maggie...
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