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The next Letter In The Mail, going out early next week, is from Elisa Albert.
Elisa Albert is the author of How This Night is Different (stories) and The Book of Dahlia (a novel). The New Yorker said she “writes with a pathos uniquely her own, all the more blistering for being slyly invoked.”
Her work has appeared in Tin House, FiveChapters, Lilith, Post Road, and a bunch of anthologies.
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...moreOur April poet, Carmen Giménez Smith, was featured on NPR’s NewsPoet series. (NewsPoet has featured Rumpus Poetry Book Club poet and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith as well.) Check it out.
And if you’d like to become a member of the Poetry Book Club–we’re talking about Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s collection The Ground right now–click here.
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A month ago we announced Letters To Each Other, which allowed subscribers to Letters In The Mail to send a one page letter and SASE.
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This week’s Letter In The Mail is from MariNaomi.
MariNaomi is the author of the Smoke In Your Eyes comic that appears monthly on The Rumpus. She is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011).
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Linda Hogan about her poetry collection Indios.
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...moreThis month, the Rumpus Book Club has been reading the latest novel from Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet. Here’s some of what other people have been saying about the book.
Library Journal says of it “Evocative, intriguing, and complex, this novel is as smooth as the underbelly of a deadly, furtive reptile.
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The Rumpus Book Club talks with Cheryl Strayed about Wild, finding forgiveness through writing, Sugar, being photoshopped, and more.
This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Tao Lin.
Tao is the author of six books including the novel Richard Yates, the novella Shoplifting From American Apparel. He is the founder of the literary press Muumuu house.
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When I saw the words “This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Sari Botton” at the bottom of Wednesday’s Daily Rumpus email from Stephen Elliott, my stomach dropped.
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I went on a letter writing rampage yesterday and it’s all your fault. Thanks for that.
One of them was to Lorelei Lee about how I want to be a sex performer but I’m a wife and mother in the suburbs of Nashville so I’m settling for burlesque.
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This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Sari Botton.
Sari authors a column on The Rumpus called Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me and recently wrote an essay about her experiences as a ghostwriter.
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...moreA few people asked recently how many letters have gone out so far for Letters In The Mail. Here’s a list, but remember we send them pre-sorted, which the post office prefers. The result is they can take up to ten business days to arrive.
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This week’s Letter In The Mail is by Aimee Bender. Her letter is written by hand and begins, Dear Reader, writing a letter is reminding me of other letters.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys.
Letter writing is one of those things said to fall under the rubric of “lost art.” Like tango dancing or throwing a knuckleball, whatever semi-vanished pastime we’re getting sentimental about this week (a google search reveals reference to a “Lost Art of Blogging,” which means time’s really moving, isn’t it?), letter writing is rumored to have disappeared.
This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Rick Moody. Rick was actually the first columnist on The Rumpus.
...moreDean Haspiel was our fourth letter writer for Letters In The Mail, but his letter was different, it was a cartoon. And it elicited an interesting response which he has posted over at Trip City.
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This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Padma Viswanathan. Her letter is written by hand (in cursive!) and begins, I’m sorry, I must start out by recounting a dream.
Padma’s website is here. She’s written for The Rumpus before here and here and actually a bunch of times.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly Duckling Presse, who published Transfer Fat.
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...moreToday is the very last day to join The Rumpus Book Club if you’re hoping to receive Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s book, Wild. Make your way over here to subscribe.
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If you were referred by USA Today, and want more information on Letters In The Mail, click here. And thank you for stopping by; let’s have a relationship.
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