Ordinary, Complicated Suburbs
Tom Perrotta’s new collection of stories, Nine Inches, paints a vibrant portrait of community living in the affluent suburbs, giving equal weight to its tragedies and successes. As Alix Ohlin…
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Serena Candelaria
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Serena Candelaria is a Rumpus intern, and a self-proclaimed fiction addict. This summer, she worked at 29th Street Publishing and began writing a novella. She is currently a senior at Yale, where she studies Literature.
The Power of Borrowing Books
The public library system becomes the site of a resistance struggle between citizens and the mayor in Eric Lundgren’s debut novel The Facades. In his analysis published in The New…