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Letters Blog

Next Letter for Kids: Cecil Castellucci’s Annual Summer Reading List

Our fearless Children’s Correspondence Coordinator, author and editor Cecil Castellucci, sends her annual fearless summer reading list, along with a list of questions for you! Please respond with your answers so Cecil can…

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Witch Hunt

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Start your week with some nice pictures of library interiors. Now let’s talk about how climate change is pushing tropical diseases toward the Arctic. Why doesn’t Google know my dad…

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Reality Scooped: Talking with Tony Tulathimutte

Recent Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte discusses his first novel, Private Citizens, the state of satire in 2017, “booby-trapping” identity politics, and productivity in the Internet age.

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Notable Twin Cities: 6/18–6/24

Sunday 6/18: Dr. Joanne Cacciatore will present her new book Bearing the Unbearable. Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Elin Hilderbrand will be discussing her novel The Identicals and signing copies. Barnes & Noble Edina,…

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Notable New York

Notable NYC: 6/17–6/23

Sunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost…

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Book Club Blog

Why I Chose Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Interrupted Geographies for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

I still remember the time many (many) years ago, as an undergrad, when my professor dropped Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Ralegh’s response on…

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What to Read When Everyone Is Celebrating Dads

Whether you are celebrating your father or cursing his name this Father's Day, here's a list of very good books about fathers from writers we love.

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Notable Chicago: 6/16–6/22

Friday 6/16: Visit Women & Children First to Celebrate the launch of Sharon Solwitz’s Once, In Lourdes with a conversation between Sharon and local author S. L. Wisenberg. 7:30 p.m.,…

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This Week in Short Fiction

We’re halfway through June, and though the first day of summer isn’t technically until June 21, I think we can all agree that we’re well into the sweltering season. This week’s…

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Earnest, Funny, and Fun: Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

What makes Chen’s poetry so exhilarating is that these poems always have a center of gravity—the self—that keeps the many subjects they explore in orbit.

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Look I don’t want to terrify anyone, but AI is making up its own non-human languages for no apparent reason. Imagining President Pence (ugh). Much more pleasant: Japanese water towers…

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