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The Rumpus Original Combo with Mary Roach

By Mike Scalise

August 2nd, 2010

“We are little sacks of flesh and muscle and blood. We’re little frail things. What the heck will happen to us?”

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

By Mike Scalise

August 2nd, 2010

In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach matches her curiosity and humor against government secrecy, drunken Russian cosmonauts, and free-floating turds.

The Shaking Woman

By Mike Scalise

July 26th, 2010

Siri Hustvedt’s memoir is a sprawling exploration of memory and the ways trauma manifests in physical illness—less Mary Karr, more Oliver Sacks.

Gonville

By Mike Scalise

June 15th, 2010

An actor’s memoir of growing up with a dangerous father channels Augusten Burroughs, Sean Wilsey, et. al.—maybe a bit too closely.

An Inside Passage

By Mike Scalise

September 1st, 2009

Kurt Caswell’s award-winning essays channel Phillip Lopate and David Foster Wallace, while exploring the plight of a “mountain man” stuck in a paved-over world.