The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“Do not chew on the headphone cords!” — From @electriclit, passive aggressive library signs.Marc Jacobs is pissing off literary West Villagers by opening a book store.At The Guardian, Christine...
View ArticleSylvia Plath Inspires Adoration, Scorn
Sylvia Plath has always been a polarizing figure, a fact underscored by the reaction to editions of her work recently released to mark fifty years since her death.Are her poems humorless or funny to...
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The Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I discovered The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm’s portrait of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, last fall and read it in just one sitting, the book in one hand and a champagne flute of white wine in the other....
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
This Sunday, Ted Wilson turned five. Happy anniversary, Ted!In the latest “Last Book I Loved,” Michelle King finds a kindred spirit in Sylvia Plath, who, the first time she kissed husband Ted Hughes,...
View ArticleTed Hughes’s Animals
A new collection called “A Ted Hughes Bestiary” offers selections of Hughes’s animal poems. The Intelligent Life discusses how this work formed “the backbone” of his career.Related Posts:Memorial A...
View ArticleIt Should Have Ended With Bees
Plath chose to end her Ariel with four of the five-poem sequence Hughes buried in the middle, the so-called “bee poems.”When Sylvia Plath died, her husband Ted Hughes rearranged the poems in Ariel,...
View ArticleSylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the Early Years
‘Marriage is my medium,’ he wrote. ‘You have no idea what a happy life Sylvia and I lead.’Salon has an exclusive look into the early (and happy) days of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.Related Posts:It...
View ArticleThe Real Life of the Writer
We are quite happy to view images of writers’ desks and read features on ‘Where I Write’. Very different would be to see ‘Where I Sleep’ or ‘Where I Park the Car’; ‘Where I store the extra loo roll’....
View ArticleFebruary 25th, 1956
… met, by the way, a brilliant ex-Cambridge poet at the wild St. Botolph’s Review party last week; will probably never see him again… but wrote my best poem about him afterwards—the only man I’ve met...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tess Taylor
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.This is an edited transcript of the book club...
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter
Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta Books and an award-winning bookseller. His debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, examines the lives of a father of two boys after the sudden, accidental...
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The Rumpus Interview with Gonzalo Torné
Novelist Gonzalo Torné has received wide acclaim in his native Spain, winning the Premio Jaén de Novela as well as a finalist award for the Premio National de Narrativa for his previous works. Divorce...
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Finishing What You Start: A Conversation with Musician Matt Kivel
I was introduced to Matt Kivel in April 2014 at a literary reading at KGB Bar in Manhattan’s East Village. In between readings, Matt and I bonded over our appreciation for Hamilton Leithauser, The...
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Chewing Rocks: A Conversation with David Biespiel
In bohemian Boston in the 1980s, above Comm Ave by Ringer Park, young David Biespiel, a New England transplant from Houston, verbally spars with the droves of friends who come and leave in plumes of...
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Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
The “One Life: Sylvia Plath” exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC evokes a certain kind of worship. I went because my world was starting to feel small in the way it always does...
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