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Heather Partington
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Wilberforce by H.S. Cross and H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Heather Partington analyzes two very different books published in 2015 that examine the effects of grief and of all-boys British boarding schools.
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Rus Like Everyone Else by Bette Adriaanse
Heather Scott Partington reviews Bette Adriaanse’s debut novel Rus Like Everyone Else.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Michael Seidlinger
The Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms and Book Reviews Editor for Electric Literature talks about his newest novel, The Strangest.
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My Life as a Mermaid by Jen Grow
Heather Partington reviews Jen Grow’s new collection My Life as a Mermaid.
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum
Daum’s collection is at its best when it’s being the most transparent and unapologetic.
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: From Here by Jen Michalski
Many authors’ stories blend together across a collection; they struggle to convey a unique voice in each piece. Not so with Jen Michalski’s From Here. Though her characters share common experiences—dashed hopes, disappointments, misunderstanding by loved ones—the voice in each…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: The Man Who Walked Away by Maud Casey
In her new novel, The Man Who Walked Away, Maud Casey examines the history of psychology: both its inception and the powerful draw for doctors trying to uncover the causes of man’s mental illness during the early days of the…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: A Different Bed Every Time by Jac Jemc
The prose of some books keeps you at arm’s length. Resists the idea of transparency or security. Dares you to look deeper to find meaning. The sentences in Jac Jemc’s collection, A Different Bed Every Time, require untangling. Sentences like,…
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The Sunday Rumpus Reviews: Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter and Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer
Fridays at Enrico’s (Counterpoint) Don’t write about writing. That gets said a lot. But like any absolute about what not to do, it’s only true until someone does it well. Such is the case with Don Carpenter’s Fridays at Enrico’s,…
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Beside Myself by Ashley Farmer
There are many reasons that an author would want to put a book–an actual physical object–into a reader’s hands, rather than just communicating data. Some books rebuff the notion that fiction is the same when it’s replicated digitally, downloaded, or…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Women in Bed by Jessica Keener
What sends us to our beds? Desire, sure. Sex. But also sickness. Sleep. Loneliness and healing. Jessica Keener’s Women in Bed is a collection of nine stories about women at all stages of life and wanting.
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan’s stories are snapshots. Stark vignettes. We see her characters in the middle of conflict, just at the moment of their potential undoing. In Rohan’s collection, Goodnight Nobody, she assembles thirty short stories that show each character walking a…