Monkeys Don’t Have Stories
The question, “why fiction?” has very much been on my mind lately, and it’s one of these things that, again, is so big, and so obvious that most people just don’t think about it. It seems obvious to...
View ArticleThe Novel of Economics
Following her essay about the influence of Adam Smith’s economic theories in Jane Austen’s novels, writing at The Atlantic, Shannon Chamberlain gets back to the topic, this time debating what influence...
View ArticleThe Poetics of Everything
Sure, there’s poetry and there are certain conventions associated with it, but the notion of poetics can exist outside of a literary space.The Believer blog interviews poet Lucy Ives and discusses her...
View ArticleLit Theorists for Babies
WOMAN: Peekabo! I see you! Peekaboo! I see you!BABY DERRIDA: How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to see in there myself?Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg has...
View ArticleVideo Games as Poetry
Space in video games is not, strictly speaking, physical. It’s made of pixels on a screen, and the movement of objects within it are governed by the algorithms of its central processing unit. This...
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The Rumpus Interview with Brendan Jones
Brendan Jones’s striking debut novel, The Alaskan Laundry, follows a young woman, Tara Marconi, a former boxer, as she escapes from Philadelphia to Alaska on a journey of self-discovery—adventures...
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The Rumpus Interview with George Saunders
Introducing George Saunders makes me feel what I imagine flight attendants feel when, before takeoff, they have to give that safety speech—you know the one—to a plane full of passengers who just want...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz
Maria Cichosz is a rare mind. At once a novelist and literary theorist, her work across forms and registers engages everything from sensory experience and allegorical interpretation to revelatory drug...
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