Everyone’s favorite scrappy San Fransisco literary web site, The Rumpus, has relaunched with a major redesign. Go over and poke around why don’t you? If you’re looking for a place to start, why not Roxane Gay’s recent essay on the New York Times Book Review section’s dismal numbers when it comes to reviewing books written by people of color?
The Rumpus Redesign
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Film Them
If eight Harry Potter movies weren't enough, we can expect three new Warner Brothers films about J.K. Rowling's spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The trilogy will feature the magical zoologist Newt Scamander as he goes on adventures in New York 70 years prior to the Potter characters.
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An Excess of Symmetry
“What a perfect couple, two halves of the same little orange.” Guernica Magazine has a fantastic flash fiction piece by Andrés Neuman in anticipation of his upcoming collection of stories, The Things We Don’t Do.
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ICYMI
“People write to me to let me know that, in case I missed it, there are only two genders.” Year in Reading alum Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, speaks to The Guardian about gender, family, and her personal life.
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Rigoberto González on Teaching the M.F.A.
"I was enrolled in a writing program to imagine a cultured life, not just to dream about the rewards of being a writer." Rigoberto González for Publisher's Weekly on why he attended and later returned to teach at a M.F.A. program.
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