G.K. Chesterton
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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Just Doing It: A Conversation with Daniel Ortberg
Mallory Ortberg discusses their new book, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, what it means to be a self-taught writer, and questioning gender.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Day
Jon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as “a technology for living.”
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No Mystery
The books we read in childhood don’t always hold up to our memories of them. Sometimes it’s just a matter of juvenile or bad writing, but other times, it’s the author’s prejudices that turn us off as adults—and classic detective stories…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz talks about his newest novel, Ashley Bell, overcoming self-doubt, and “what this incredibly beautiful language of ours allows you to do.”
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The Highest Bidder
Valeria Luiselli previews The Story of My Teeth for BOMB Magazine; among the dentures being optioned are G.K. Chesterton’s, Virginia Woolf’s, Charles Lamb’s, Rousseau’s, and the fangs of Mr. Montaigne.