Holy crap Rumpus Books has a lot for you to read this week.
Did you know The Rumpus made a book?
A review of Where I Live, a poetry collection by Maxine Kumin.
A review of Listen to This, essays by Alex Ross.
A review of Holding Company, poems by Major Jackson.
The Cleverest Man In The World — A review of Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock.
This Fantasy Is Most Disturbing — A review of Exley, a novel by Brock Clarke.
Here The Rumpus One-Off Book Club interviews Jonathan Franzen, and here the regular Rumpus Book Club interviews Samantha Chang.
And then here our own Elissa Bassist tells us all about Lorrie Moore at The New Yorker Festival.
Or this subjective account of the Mischief and Mayhem Party by Rozalia Jovanovic.
Speaking of subjective accounts, here’s an account of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
And really, read this: a beautiful essay by Porochista Khakpour on The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hadayat.
