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Guia Cortassa
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BAKED MEMORIES
Proust left out one important detail: the recipe. And no one ever asked him for it. We all know the famous passage of Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” in which the author’s mind flies back to childhood after tasting…
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Where is the Great American Novel by a woman?
New York Times Book Review’s staff editor Jennifer Szalai and Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid take on the question: Where is the Great American Novel by a woman? In her answer Szalai writes, “Rather than agonizing over specific examples, we could…
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THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
I’ve spent plenty of nights endlessly refreshing my Twitter and Facebook feed while I’m reading or writing, in the hopes of not feeling so alone… It’s time to admit to myself that part of the reason I do this is…
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Tender: A quarterly journal made by women
Tender is a brand new “quarterly journal made by women” edited in the United Kingdom. The Quietus recently talked to Tender’s two founders, Sophie Collins and Rachael Allen, about the chosen name, the meaning of “female-identified” definition and which female writers…
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Videos of the New Yorker Festival
If you missed The New Yorker Festival, you can click here to see Rumpus interviewees Karen Russell and Junot Díaz talk to New Yorker’s Willing Davidson about children characters and fantasy genre, as well as Rumpus Book Club interviewee George…
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Mark Twain and a twist of fate
In an unpredictable twist of faith, Kevin Mac Donnell, an unknown book dealer and scholar from Austin, TX, learned what could be the truth behind Mark Twain’s moniker. In the LA Review of Books, Mac Donell explains that his discovery…