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Serena Candelaria

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.
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    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 writes on the collection, Perrotta’s portrait is “an essential, if…

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    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 Yorker, Jon Michaud discusses the importance of Lundgren’s work in…