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Michael Jauchen
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Made to Break by D. Foy
Michael Jauchen reviews MADE TO BREAK by D. Foy today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin
Michael Jauchen reviews Lucy Corin’s ONE HUNDRED APOCALYPSES AND OTHER APOCALYPSES today in The Rumpus Book Review.
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Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller
Mueller’s America is a country we know well, a place tirelessly working to cultivate normalcy through repetition and stoic homogeneity. It’s also a country that’s particularly ill equipped and unwilling to talk openly about its own failings and histories of…
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“Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall,” by Ken Sparling
When Knopf originally published Ken Sparling’s Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall in 1996, it became a casualty of lousy timing.
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Tall, Slim & Erect, by Alex Forman
Three quarters of the way through Alex Forman’s multimedia paean to presidential minutiae, Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents, you hit this candid entry from Harry Truman’s 1947 diary: This great white jail is a hell of a…
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Michael Jauchen: The Last Book I Loved, Miss Lonelyhearts
I read a lot in the bathtub. This isn’t because I’m particularly drawn to cleanliness, but because I’m drawn to the readerly space that a hot tub of water can create. The stillness of a full bathtub—that sporadic spigot drip,…
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Speech Fever
Ben Marcus’ fourth novel, The Flame Alphabet, uses well-worn myths as a way to expose and explore the pressing questions that we often forget thrum at the heart of our most common traditions and rituals.