Step Aside, Dashiell Hammett
If you like your detectives hardboiled and your femmes fatale, you’ll dig Flavorwire’s list of ten essential neo-noir authors.From Dennis Lehane (author of Shutter Island and Mystic River) to Lindsay...
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Post-Partum Regression
In my bottom drawer, under the old ratty t-shirts and worn, candy-cane and Scottie-dog printed pajama pants, scattered like a child’s game of pick-up sticks, lies my collection of positive pregnancy...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 11/8–11/14
Saturday 11/8: Brooklyn Comic Arts Festival. Mt. Carmel Church, 11 a.m., free.Elizabeth Lopeman reads Trans Europe Express (November 2014) about an American au pair considering abandoning her host...
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Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter
Chekhov’s line about crafting drama—a gun that appears in the first act has to go off by the end of the third—is a favorite axiom for writers of the well-groomed realist novel. Well, Lindsay Hunter’s...
View ArticleA Year in Isaac Fitzgerald’s Reading
The Millions asked Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald about his favorite books from 2014. He picked, among others, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter and Saeed Jones’s latest...
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The Rumpus Interview with Maryse Meijer
In Maryse Meijer’s debut collection, Heartbreaker, there is no unnecessary adornment, nothing to detract from the dark torrents that move the stories forward. Taboo, sex, gendered power, and violence...
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This Week in Books: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an...
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/7–8/13
Monday 8/7: Editor Anne Margaret Daniel discusses and signs F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die For You: And Other Lost Stories. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Rhys Bowen discusses and signs On Her Majesty’s...
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Notable NYC: 8/12–8/18
Sunday 8/13: Svetlana Kitto leads an Oral History for Writers. Wendy’s Subway, 3 p.m., $100. Barbara Browning, Eloisa Amezcua, Jenn Baker, Camonghne Felix, Ariel Francisco, Gabe Habash, and Jess...
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Notable Chicago: 8/18–8/24
Friday 8/18: Women & Children First hosts the book launch party for Eat Only When You’re Hungry, the new novel from Lindsay Hunter. 7:30 p.m., free. Sunday 8/20: As always, the Uptown Poetry Slam...
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This Week in Essays
Manjushree Thapa digs deep into the roots of her adopted home of Toronto to find what’s redeemable over at The Millions. For The Root, Panama Jackson shares a heartbreaking story of how the Trump’s...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 1/4–1/10
Friday 1/4: Women & Children First hosts the book launch party for Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s by Katie Batza. 7 p.m., free. Visit Volumes Bookcafe to hear Michael Berube read...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 3/8–3/14
Saturday 3/9: Amber Tamblyn discusses Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. Seminary Co-op, 3 p.m., free. Sunday 3/10: Visit Seminary Co-op for a reading and discussion with...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 4/19–4/25
Friday 4/19: Volumes Bookcafe hosts irish trees: A Celebration of Eileen Myles with featured readers Megan Pietz, Amanda Rozmer, Anna McColgan, and Chris Rife. 7 p.m., free. Saturday 4/20: Briallen...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 7/19–7/25
Friday 7/19: Visit 57th Street Books for a reading from two debut poetry collections: Erika Sánchez’s Lessons on Explusion and Emily Skaja’s Brute. 6 p.m., free. Women & Children First hosts...
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