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The Other Jong
An interview with Erica Jong:“I was a graduate student at Columbia. I was teaching at City College. I was an academic. It never occurred to me that I had to take my name out of the phone book and hide...
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A Mashup of Devils
These days one doesn’t have to look strictly to horror movies to find devils. Both 2007 and 2008 were awash with cinematic bête noires of all shapes and sizes (Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street,...
View ArticleHow Women Write About Sex
Do women have more trouble writing about sex than men? Claire Dederer, writing in the Atlantic, thinks so.As a writer, I find myself compelled to reconcile the blithe sexual picaresque of my youth with...
View ArticleAwkward Feminist
The Guardian’s Anna Schachner has a run-down of the awkwardness that ensued between Roxane Gay and Erica Jong at the keynote address of the Decatur Book Festival on September 4th.While some audience...
View ArticleDrawing History
For the next hour or so, we shifted in our seats, tense and transfixed. It felt like I was witnessing history, a dialogue I’d mostly been exposed to on the internet being brought forth into real life...
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Okonkwo
It’s hard to imagine a more scintillating backdrop for a novel than the underground jazz clubs of 1920s Harlem, except perhaps the vibrant discothèques of Paris. Luckily for readers, Joe Okonkwo’s Jazz...
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Notable NYC: 6/23–6/29
Sunday 6/24: Lucy Bellwood presents 100 Demon Dialogues and talks about it with Rumpus Editor-in-Chief Marisa Siegel. McNally Jackson – SoHo, 4 p.m., free. Monday 6/25: Erica Jong, Philip Schultz,...
View ArticleRevolutionary Anger: Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad
Facebook has become a pit of horror. Every day, I read distressing recollections from colleagues and friends. #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport, content warnings and rape testimonies from college campuses to...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 4/15–4/21
Monday 4/15: Jessica Shattuck discusses her new novel, The Women in the Castle. 7 p.m. at CalTech‘s Dabney Hall. Danny Goldberg, in conversation with Ben Lee, discusses and signs Serving the Servant:...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 4/17–4/23
Wednesday 4/17: Oliver Nachtwey will be discussing his latest book, Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe. Nachtwey will be in conversation with Adrian Daub. City Lights...
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What to Read When You’re Looking for Desire
I’m continually fascinated by desire. Of course, I’m interested in desire in all of its manifestations, but as human experience, I’m curious about women’s desire most of all. How women contain it or...
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Notable Online: 5/9–5/15
Monday 5/10: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Branson Hobson, Elissa Washuta, and Dani Putney join the Franklin Park Reading Series, hosted by Marae Hart. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free. Kristin Hersh presents Seeing...
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