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Jessica Freeman-Slade: The Last Book I Loved, The Last American Man
It’s easy to write off one author based on a best-seller. Call it jealousy, call it high-end literary disdain, call it whatever you want, but it’s easy to give in to the impulse to distrust something...
View ArticleThe Finest Wife
When Rose was sixteen years old and five months pregnant, she won a beauty pageant in South Texas, based on her fine walk up a runway in a sweet navy-blue bathing suit. This was shortly before the war....
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The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert
I was in college when I first encountered the work of Elizabeth Gilbert. I was trying to be a writer (full disclosure: I still am), and I’d given myself the assignment of reading one short story...
View ArticleMcSweeney’s Saves Thanksgiving
Already overwhelmed by thoughts of Thanksgiving?Want a menu that teeters on the line of conventional and culturally innovative? Look no further than McSweeney’s Thanksgiving Gallimaufry! The online...
View Article“I Might Really Geek Out Here, Dude”
In 2005, Elizabeth Gilbert was a mid-list author with some fiction and some journalism under her belt. In 2006, she tried something new and published a memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. The rest is history and...
View ArticleNotable Chicago 10/27–11/2
Sunday 10/27: Every week, you’re invited to join poets and spectators alike for the Uptown Poetry Slam. This is where slam poetry began and where it continues to grow. 7 PM, $6, The Green Mill.Monday...
View ArticleTournament of Books X Begins!
Get ready for the Morning News’s tenth annual Tournament of Books, a “March Madness–style battle royale” to determine which work of fiction will reign supreme (though the site is careful to note that...
View ArticleThe Great G.A.N.
Does the “Great American Novel” actually exist—or is it just the name of a book by Philip Roth? Over at the New Yorker, you can read Adam Gopnik’s review of The Dream of the Great American Novel by...
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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay
Last fall, a small press published an anthology titled Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. This fall, an imprint of Simon and Schuster published a follow-up essay collection by...
View ArticleTravel Writer’s Burden
In a thoughtful essay for Boston Review, Jessa Crispin reflects on the gender dynamics of travel writing, and the genre’s penchant for a colonial mentality that persists in today’s narratives:Any...
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The Rumpus Interview with Yumi Sakugawa
In Yumi Sakugawa’s breakout comic, I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You, a one-eyed monster pines for a faceless creature. The pair look something like Cousin It and a soft-bodied Stormtrooper—ageless,...
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Female Friendships and Online Literary Sexism
I read Kim Brooks’s recent essay in New York Magazine, “I’m Having A Friendship Affair,” describing her despair at the death of one of her female friendships, just days after one of my closest friends,...
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Podcatcher #2: Rose Buddies
The sun never sets on the McElroy Empire of Podcasts. If you’ve ever listened to a podcast, there’s a good chance you’ve heard one of theirs. Their fans include such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize winner...
View ArticleKaraoke for a Cause
The New York Times writes about how Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, overcame her fear of singing in public to raise money for a nonprofit that helps orphans in Nepal. Gilbert recalls:I said...
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The Rumpus Interview with Blair Braverman
I first heard about Blair Braverman on This American Life, when her piece “200 Dog Night” opened the May 2015 “Game Face” episode. During the summers of her 18th and 19th years, Braverman worked as a...
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It’s Just Reality: Talking with Meaghan O’Connell
Four years ago, Meaghan O’Connell had a baby. A few months later, she wrote the nearly 15,000-word story of that birth, sent in installments to friends—and eventually strangers—who subscribed to her...
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What to Read When You Are Ready to Start Over
My new book, Eat Cake. Be Brave., is a memoir about how all the years of my life led up to the one that changed it, forever. What year was that exactly? The year I turned forty-one. Oh, wait—you...
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What to Read When You Want to Raise Your Voice in Revolution
Writing I Am Yours was a journey of revolution. I gave myself a year to write the first draft because it takes a year for the earth to orbit the sun, and revolution is another word for orbit. Writing...
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Intersecting and Diverging Narratives: Talking with Michele Filgate
When the title “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About” came across my radar I immediately requested a galley. The title tugged at a deep place within my chest—a haunted place, a place that nodded, eyes...
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Notable NYC: 6/1–6/7
Saturday 6/1: Joseph Cassara, Patrick Nathan, and Joseph Osmundson celebrate The House of Impossible Beauties. BookCulture – 112th, 6 p.m., free. Sunday 6/2: Laura Catherine Brown, Rebecca Donner,...
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