Sinclair Lewis’ Rejection Letter
Letters of Note posts Sinclair Lewis’ rejection of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.Lewis argues that honors such as the Pulitzer serve the committees who award them rather than receivers of the...
View ArticleLong Forgotten Books
In 1934, Malcolm Cowley, editor of The New Republic, got in touch with many renowned American writers asking them to list 3 or 4 of the best hidden gems of literature adding a few sentences to present...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sean Wilsey
Sean Wilsey, San Francisco’s bad boy made good and author of a memoir of childhood delinquency, Oh The Glory of It All, is back with a collection of essays titled More Curious, which catalog his...
View ArticleA Fictional Tyrant Come to Life
At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada compares Donald Trump with the fictional dictators of two novels that seem to uncannily anticipate the rise of today’s foul-mouthed “politician.” Sinclair Lewis’s...
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The Human Cost: Discussing Political Storytelling with Olivia Kate Cerrone
Olivia Kate Cerrone’s novella, The Hunger Saint, dives into child labor and immigration in post-World War II Italy. Told from the point of view of a young boy chained to the sulfur mines in Sicily, the...
View ArticleTitanic Turns Twenty in a World That Won’t Talk About It
After twenty years and eleven Oscars and eleventy billion dollars, we still don’t really talk about Titanic. We’re a generation that happily blogs and Tumblrs and inspo-boards across the messy, dorky...
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