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More MFA Talk
To be perfectly honest, I’d probably have ignored this piece by Seth Abramson about the top 25 Underrated Creative Writing programs if my partner Amy and several Facebook friends hadn’t pointed it out to me for this entry: “Florida Atlantic…
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Welcome to Saturday
So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run, so I guess I’ve…
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Book Club Wonders
-How big is Adam Levin‘s The Instructions? Joseph Michael Owens reveals four demonstrative photos. -What does Tao Lin sound like in person? A clip of him reading at Litquake on October 4th. -Is Lin’s Richard Yates immensely relatable? Corey K.…
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All Bets Are Off
Betting on the Man Booker prize has been suspended “after a flurry of bets supporting Tom McCarthy’s novel C.” How many bets, exactly, is a “flurry” you ask? “The bookmaker’s spokesperson David Williams said £15,000-worth of bets were placed on…
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Introducing Rumpus Women, Vol. I
We’re delighted to present the introduction to the first and most extraordinary book ever published by The Rumpus!
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Sentence and Solas
If you didn’t see it this weekend, Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, wrote an astonishingly incisive op-ed about the myriad ways in which literature is a product of translation. Cunningham suggests, borrowing, ostensibly, from T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Tradition and…
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Where I Live
Maxine Kumin’s poems about the specifics of life on the farm with family, and relationships to fish, fowl, horse and vegetable matter, not to mention lovely liquids and unappealing solids, are consistently satisfying and sometimes deliciously entertaining.
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Yiyun Li Reads
Check it out: Yiyun Li, “recent recipient of the MacArthur ‘Genius Grant,’” reads the title story from Gold Boy, Emerald Girl after the jump:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am endlessly fascinated by these amazing pictures of Dubai. Almost certainly the most whimsical Japanese bank I’ve seen today. I don’t usually like links in other languages, but there are some pretty amazing old Brazilian buildings here. Look at…
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This Book Will End Your Life: The Greatest Modern Persian Novel Ever Written
Among the many places I was forbidden to go as a youth was through the pages of a book that didn’t even exist in our bookshelves.