Sundays’ the day to catch up with what Rumpus Books published this week. Lots of links to our reviews, essays and interviews below the fold.
The Millionaire Thing — A review of A Young Man’s Guide to Lat e Capitalism, a debut novel by Peter Mountford.
A review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.
Rambling Toward Understanding — A review of Into These Knots by Ashley Anna McHugh.
Temporary Shelter — A review of Weston Cutter’s debut story collection, You’d Be a Stranger, Too.
His Forked Voice Licked My Mortal Ears Clean — A review of The Flight Cage, poetry by Rebecca Dunham.
Be sure not to miss these amazing Rumpus interviews with Geoff Dyer and Sigrid Nunez.
And also the essay Generation Gap #9: Okay, Cupid (in which this sentence exists: I recently found out that my ex-boyfriend has been luring women off OKCupid and then getting them to read biblical passages with him immediately post-coital.)
And finally, The Lonely Voice #10 By Peter Orner: Two Boys Fighting, Omaha, Nebraska.