Summer is coming. What will you be reading? Will it be that Henry James novel you’ve meant to read since 1987 or that book with the vampire-zombies with tantalizing unmentionables?
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement is full of lots and lots of better ideas, including reviews of two novels, a fictionalized memoir and two books of nonfiction, as well as an interview with Dave Eggers and an unpublished piece by Charles Bukowski.
{sounds of Cicadas} — A review of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s new fictionalized memoir A Drifting Life.
The Chronicles of Narcissists — A review of Hal Niedzviecki’s nonfiction exploration of privacy issues called The Peep Diaries.
A review of the novel Wrack & Ruin by Rosarita Bay.
The Myth of Mary and The Mother of God — A review of Miri Rubin’s new nonfiction about how the myth of Mary is a “reflection of universal human identity.”
North of the Border — A review of Luis Alberto Urrea’s new novel Into the Beautiful North.
And don’t miss The Rumpus Long Interview with Dave Eggers, Charles Bukowski’s unpublished forward to William Wantling’s 7 on Style, and The Rumpus interview with Kate Christensen.
