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Megan Roth

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Megan Roth is a writer and faculty member of the English Department at Florida Atlantic University. She has published and co-written several trade titles and was a recent Michener Fellow at the University of Miami. Megan has been a semifinalist in the James Jones First Novel Competition and the SLS Fiction Prize. She is currently working on a novel.
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NW by Zadie Smith

  • Megan Roth
  • October 2, 2012
The fat sun stalls by the phone masts. This is how Zadie Smith opens her latest novel, NW, and how appropriate–that something so fiery and core-hot, so screaming and universal…
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A Different American Dream

  • Megan Roth
  • January 9, 2012
In Sam Benjamin’s debut memoir, American Gangbang, we follow an aspiring porn director as he finds what he’s looking for–and what he’s not.
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If Demolition is an End…Then What?

  • Megan Roth
  • November 21, 2011
In his new book Rich People Things, Chris Lehmann identifies and deconstruct the signifiers of social class in America.
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Neil de la Flor

  • Megan Roth
  • July 9, 2010
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
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