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Rumpus Book ClubFebruary 8th, 2011
WHERE I WRITE #2: Situation/Coordinates, Venue, Witnesses
The list below is a register of the dates and locations of when and where the author wrote her memoir Revolution, published in this month. …more
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May 13th, 2009
Deb Olin Unferth: The Last Book I Loved, The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
This is one damn weird love story. This is one strange quest. This is one bizarre boat. These are a couple of strange characters we’ve got here. This book feels like a dare, as in I dare you not to believe this. What a boat! Mrs. Unguentine takes pretty much the whole book to describe it. They grow a garden on the thing. They grow a field, they grow a forest so high Unguentine can’t navigate from the pilot house, and they paddle around lost for years and years. The barge feels like your wildest dreams—think Seuss, Oz, Alice—and but this boat surpasses them in sadness and romance. A lost ark with five-hundred sails. …more
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