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Noah Sanders
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“Baffled By The Predicament”
George Saunders’ (he of a recent Rumpus Book Club convo) newish short story collection masterpiece Tenth of December has garnered an impressive selection of praise from some of the biggest of literary guns. And the hits keep coming. Aaron Thier…
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Emily Rapp In The NYT Book Review
The Still Point of The Turning World, Rumpus Book Club author Emily Rapp’s memoir about her Tay-Sachs inflicted son Ronan, is reviewed in The New York Times Book Review this week. Sarah Manguso, herself the author most recently of the…
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Cyber Stalking Really Is That Bad
Caleb Crain over at The Nation digs in deep to James Lasdun’s new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, the seemingly terrifying story of his “persecution on the internet by a clever, mentally unbalanced person.” The cyber-harassment (a wildly tame description…
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Monomania: Why Writing All By Your Lonesome Kind of Sucks
Over at the New York Times “Draft” blog, Benjamin Nugent, author of Good Kids, breaks down the romantic notion that locking yourself away in the “primeval hush of the Midwest” is a certified boon to your writing. Instead, Nugent discusses…