2013
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A Labor of Love
In an essay in The Millions, Dominic Smith sets out to answer the question, “How many novelists are at work in America?” Despite panic about the death of the novel, “more novels are being written and published… than at any…
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David L. Ulin On Writing
David L. Ulin writes about his first book(s) in an essay featured by The Paris Review. He recounts boyhood ambitions, drafts that never came to be any more than that, and the labors that resulted in a book that he…
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Writing in Bed
The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I’m kind of a binge writer, I would say… Lena Dunham, a former Rumpus interviewee, sheds light on her creative process, Twitter, the…
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Make Reading a New Year’s Resolution!
The folks over at BOOKish have a wonderful idea: add reading to your list of New Year’s resolutions. They have helpful hints for how you can accomplish this: “Read a new author It’s so difficult to determine which authors are…
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The Last Animal by Abby Geni
Elizabeth Word Gutting reviews THE LAST ANIMAL by Abby Geni today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Kevin Sampsell
The next Letter in the Mail, going out Friday, January 3, is from Kevin Sampsell! Kevin is the publisher of the small press Future Tense Books, the editor of anthologies like Portland Noir, and the author of several books, most recently the…
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Billy Hayes
Billy Hayes, the writer of Midnight Express, candidly discusses his memoir about escaping from a Turkish prison in the 1970s, the pros and cons of having your story adapted by Hollywood, and what the War on Drugs has meant for…
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Sherlock Holmes Enters the Public Domain
Excellent news: Your X-rated Sherlock/Watson slashfic now has the blessing of the American legal system! Well, sort of. A US district court has ruled that, with the exception of a few stories published after 1923, the material from Arthur Conan…
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Hilton Als on the Vice Podcast Show
If you didn’t get the chance to take part in our Rumpus Book Club chat with White Girls author Hilton Als, don’t worry. Read the transcript, and then check out his interview with Reihan Salam for the Vice Podcast Show. They have…
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Independent Bookstores Might Just Make It After All
Rumors of independent bookstores’ demise may be at least somewhat exaggerated. On the day before Christmas, New York’s iconic Strand Book Store tweeted that it just had the “best sales day in the history of 86 years at the store”!…
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Why I Chose Jenny Browne’s Dear Stranger for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Camille Dungy on juggling, balance, and getting lost in Jenny Browne’s latest poetry collection, Dear Stranger. Click here to join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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Pulp Fiction from South India
But as I turned over the glossy, hardbound book in my hands, the seductive, bespectacled young woman with jasmine in her hair and an unusually large revolver in her hand beckoned with a look that both allured and mystified. What,…