2011
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With Words and With Pretty: Super Sunday 2011
With the exception of sporadic documentaries, books and a small but dedicated scholarly following, Mardi Gras Indians have remained comparatively unknown to much of the world outside New Orleans.
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Signs of Spring: Book Club Round-Up
Time to start April’s book club selection, The Convert, by Deborah Baker. Says Bookforum’s reviews editor Michael Miller: “I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus.…
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New Looks
Congrats to both ZYZZYVA and Canteen on their snazzy new redesigns. Those are some good looking websites.
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This Is Running For Your Life (and Getting a Book Deal)
We’re very excited to announce that FSG has purchased a new book by Rumpus contributor Michelle Orange! Titled This Is Running For Your Life, the book is a story-driven, cultural meditation on loneliness and longing in modern life. Publish date…
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Rumpus Book Club Hat Tip
“I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus. That’s how I heard about Deborah Baker’s The Convert.” Bookforum reviews editor Michael Miller from an interview at Publishers Weekly.
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Tax Day Comes Early
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King was supposed to hit stores on April 15th (Tax Day), but many online outlets are already shipping the book, a fact which is pissing off many a bookstore.
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National Poetry Month, Day 1: “Bronze Age” by Shane Book
Shane Book’s collection of poems, Ceiling of Sticks, was the first book chosen by the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You can check out Poetry Book Club Board member Camille Dungy’s rationale for choosing it here, and you can read the…
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Leopardi, to the Moon
A concise and erudite presentation of and meditation on the complex and solitary figure of Leopardi, it is also an exploration of the major themes and forms of the poems in Canti—idylls, elegies, dramatic monologues, and history poems, among others—while…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Giant rhino fossils are pretty cool (and may be the inspiration for Greek myths). MORE mid-century modern stained glass. I am very much a sucker for award winning subway design. Good news masturbation fans.
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The Rumpus Interview with George Dawes Green
George Dawes Green is on a mission. The novelist and poet has helped The Moth, the live storytelling organization he founded, grow from a few friends spinning yarns in his New York living room into something of a cultural institution.…