Quantcast
Channel: An Untamed State – The Rumpus.net
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live

Roxane Gay Rocking It at Kirkus Review!

We wrote previously about some of our editors getting amazing write-ups at Kirkus Review. Well, now essays editor Roxane Gay has received a starred Kirkus review for her new novel, An Untamed State....

View Article



Profiling Roxane Gay

Tim Obaro profiles Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay and looks at her debut novel, An Untamed State, for Chicago Magazine. The novel follows a middle-class newlywed kidnapped while on vacation in Haiti....

View Article

Announcing the Rumblr Book Club!

The Rumblr is combining two of the best things on the Internet: The Rumpus Book Club and Tumblr. So, for those of you who (unimaginably) have yet to subscribe to the official club, you can get your...

View Article

Marveling At Roxane Gay

The literary community loves Rumpus Essays Editor Roxanne Gay. She’s prolific, supportive, and a great writer. Jason Diamond, writing over at Flavorwire, explains further:While I can’t really comment...

View Article

Be Consistent, Be Yourself, Be Committed

Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay spoke to Joshunda Sanders at Buzzfeed about her debut novel An Untamed State and her forthcoming collection of essays, Bad Feminist. Gay offers some advice to writers...

View Article


The Music Behind the Book

On the heels of her debut novel, Rumpus Essays Editors Roxanne Gay has created a playlist for the book over at Largehearted Boy. According to Gay, An Untamed State took its cues from Kate Bush, The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Roxane Gay

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Roxane Gay about her new novel An Untamed State, fairy tales, and the reality of violence that women face every day, everywhere in the world.This is an edited transcript...

View Article

2014: The Year of the Debut

Though he admits that “it can be a little silly to sum up an entire year of books,” Electric Literature’s Lincoln Michel suggests that “2014 might be the year of the debut.”Related Posts:This Week in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

HORN! REVIEWS: An Untamed State

Related Posts:HORN! REVIEWS: Between the World and MeHORN! REVIEWS: Maggie: a Girl of the StreetsHORN! REVIEWS: Haints StayHORN! REVIEWS: WoodcuttersHORN! REVIEWS: The First Bad Man

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is a force. In the past six years, she has had five major works come out—a novel (An Untamed State), two short story collections (Ayiti and Difficult Women), an essay collection (Bad...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What to Read When You Need More Anne Shirley in Your Life

For generations of women, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s fictional Anne Shirley has been a defining prototype of resilient girlhood. Her red hair, incorrigible imagination, and unflagging spirit were and are...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape

Unsurprisingly, actresses in Hollywood have long known that Harvey Weinstein is a sexual predator, and have suffered for it. This is not an issue specific to Hollywood, but rather one that pervades...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

TORCH: Haiti, Crossing Borders of the Mind

The skin of the earth is seamless The sea cannot be fenced. El mar does not stop at the borders. – Gloria Anzaldua 1. Once I saw a photograph of an arm lying on the ground. It was disconnected from its...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History

It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we think it is especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...

View Article
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images