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What We’re Reading in April!

We’re very excited to share that our April Book Club pick is Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable. Bell revisits her childhood home in the remote mountains of Northern California after her mother’s home,…

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.

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Book Club Blog

What We’re Reading in March!

We’re very excited to share that our March Book Club pick is Marlena, the debut novel from Julie Buntin. Marlena tells the story of a powerful teenage friendship between two girls, and its aftermath. Edan…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rosalie Moffett

Rosalie Moffett discusses her new collection June in Eden, writing humor in poetry, using contemporary references, and trying to understand the world.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jon Raymond

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jon Raymond about his new novel Freebird, intergenerational trauma, and the unshakeable love of family.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chris Santiago

Chris Santigo on his new collection Tula, writing a multilingual text, and the connections between music and writing poetry.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce

Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup's 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton on their new book Knives & Ink, cooking with pigs' heads, and long-distance collaboration.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat for Max Ritvo

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kaveh Akbar, Shon Arieh-Lerer, Justin Boening, Sarah Blake, and Ariella Ritvo-Slifka about Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations. Max Ritvo died on August 23, 2016.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jade Chang

Jade Chang discusses her new novel The Wangs vs. the World, citizen journalism, and how to write an immigrant story that's not all about pain.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Janice N. Harrington

Janice N. Harrington on her new collection Primitive and critiquing the use of "primitive" to describe African American folk art.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michael Helm

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Michael Helm about his new novel After James, the line between paranoia and caution, and the use of poetry as a plot device.

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