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Walter Gordon

Walter Gordon is an intern at The Rumpus. He is a native of Berkeley, CA and goes to college in Oberlin, OH. He spends most of his time reading. His eyes hurt. Other hobbies include photography, writing fiction, and sitting on top of tall piles of rocks.
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    Money Novels

    In the current issue of BookForum, Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, writes about “the perils of money fiction” in the twenty-first century. “There are a few ways out of these traps—ersatz journalistic gap filling, hapless…

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    Antigonick

    Anne Carson’s newest book is Antigonick, a daring, inventive translation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Like Carson’s last book, Nox (which came in the form of a poetry filled, accordian-folded scrapbook of sorts), Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation,…