Whether you’re boiling to death in the west and center or hunkered down under battened hatches back east, I can’t think of a better time to sit inside and catch up with Rumpus Books.
The Personal Is Political — Tori Schacht reviews Anatomy of a Disappearance, Hisham Matar’s second novel.
One Of Us Is Already Gone — Adam Palumbo reviews Persons Unknown, Jake Adam York’s latest poetry collection.
Baffled, Bursting, And Barely Contained — Michele Finkelstein reviews They Could No Longer Contain Themselves, an anthology of five flash fiction chapbooks by Rose Metal Press.
It’s Just My Books I’m Burning! — Barbara Berman reviews Oranges and Snow, selected poems of Milan Djordjevic translated by Charles Simic.
Don’t miss Tana Wojczuk’s essay on “owing her existence” to Jack Kerouac while refusing to read him.
Here’s The Rumpus Interview With Robin Black, author of the short story collection If I Loved You I Would Tell You This.
And here’s also The Rumpus Interview with Caitlin Horrock, author of the collection This Is Not Your City.
Finally, here’s Steve Almond’s seventh installment of Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex, this time with Jennifer Close.
