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The Rumpus Book Club
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Book Club Member John Brown reviews The Instructions
The Instructions is this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection. Published by McSweeney’s the book is 1,024 pages. John Brown was probably the first member of the book club to finish it.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Lan Samantha Chang
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Lan Samantha Chang about All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost , MFA programs, writers experiencing non-writing periods, and biker bars.
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The Rumpus One-Off Book Club Interviews Jonathan Franzen
The Rumpus (One-Off) Book Club talks with Jonathan Franzen about Freedom, what’s on his nightstand to read next, how he learned to like Republicans, and his aversion to research. This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Tao Lin
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Tao Lin about Richard Yates, writing what you want to read, and when it’s okay to steal a book:
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Shane Book
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Shane Book about his poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Doug Dorst
“My warm-up technique appears to be to waste several hours on the web, waste several more telling myself I’m a fraud.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews John Brandon
The Rumpus Book Club talks with John Brandon about Citrus County, his second novel from McSweeney’s.