Populist Fatalism
In his new epistolary novel, Dignity, about a new community founded in the unpaved cul-de-sacs and abandoned unfinished houses of the California desert, Ken Layne criticizes the material obsessions of contemporary capitalism.
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Caleb Cage
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Anita Burdman Feferman is the author of From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort and Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. It is not an accident that her biographies are about logicians because she has been married to one for a very long time. She also writes fiction and memoir.
The Truth Is Out There
Wormwood, Nevada, the latest novel by David Oppegaard, is the story of Tyler and Anna Mayfield, who transplant from Omaha, Nebraska, to their temporary home in central Nevada.
The Rumpus Interview with Don Waters
“That gorgeous cholla cactus outside the window also has horribly sharp spines. The desert is an incredibly violent environment. Plants and animals had to get mean as hell in order…