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Gina Frangello Talks A Life in Men
Over at BuzzFeed, Rumpus contributor Julie Greicius interviews Rumpus Sunday Editor Gina Frangello about her new novel A Life in Men, the special bonds we form in adolescence, and why moms can still write about sex. Take a peek: I’m not really…
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Notable Los Angeles 3/17–3/23
Monday 3/17: Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Chris Pavone discusses and signs The Accident. 7:00 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 3/18: Eve & Leonora Epstein present and sign X vs. y: A Culture War, a Love Story. 7:00 p.m. at Book…
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Midnight Breakfast Makes an Awesome Debut!
Rumpus interviews editor Rebecca Rubenstein recently launched a kick ass online literary magazine, Midnight Breakfast. The folks over at Vela Magazine were quite impressed with MB and Rumpus contributor Kima Jones‘s CNF piece, “The Aqiqah”: “It’s always exciting to see a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #225
X-RAY VISION ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing x-ray vision.
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NYC Reading Series Kicks Off with Amy Fusselman
Girls Write Now, a terrific NY-based organization that helps underserved teenage girls in New York develop their creative voices and prepare for college, kicks off their 2014 CHAPTERS reading series on Friday, March 21st! The evening features author Amy Fusselman (whose writing has…
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Absent Characters
People of color have been largely excluded from children’s literature. Of the 3,200 children’s books published in 2013, only 93 featured black characters. In his essay, “The Apartheid of Children’s Literature,” Christopher Myers speaks out against the trend of allowing…
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Roxane Gay Rocking It at Kirkus Review!
We wrote previously about some of our editors getting amazing write-ups at Kirkus Review. Well, now essays editor Roxane Gay has received a starred Kirkus review for her new novel, An Untamed State. Check it out: “The closing chapters suggest that…
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Teju Cole Tweets 4,000-Word Essay
Last week Teju Cole published a 4,000-word non-fiction essay on immigration, titled “A Piece of the Wall,” entirely on Twitter. BuzzFeed spoke with Cole about his decision to share the piece via the social media platform, the challenges in doing so, and…
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Orfeo by Richard Powers
Brett Josef Grubisic reviews ORFEO by Richard Powers today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Celebrating 100 years of Tove Jansson (in case you didn’t know, Tove Jansson is literally the best). SOMEONE PLEASE BUY ME A VINTAGE SPACESUIT THANKS. “Good news for fans of medieval maps!” Photographing a very large tree is pretty neat.…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Living Desert
“The simple truth of having lived in the desert for most of my life [is that] unprepared people don’t ‘go missing’ in the desert in the middle of summer. What happens is that they die.”
