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The Rumpus Interview with Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of four short story collections, as well as The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and the novel The End of the Story. A MacArthur Fellow, she has been a finalist for many major book awards…
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Greenwald on Lethem
Today we ran Richard Greenwald’s fantastic essay about gentrification, authenticity, and Lethem as a New York writer. Don’t miss “Find Myself a City to Live In: Jonathan Lethem’s Imagined Metropolis.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: New Cover Art From McSweeney’s
The Rumpus Book Club’s October pick, The Instructions, by Adam Levin, is not only going to be an amazing read (we’ve heard really good things), but it’s beautiful too. (It’s also 1,024 pages). Take a look:
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Coffee with the Candidates: Chris Young
The greatest goddamn thing I’ve seen in a while. What makes it so great is that this guy doesn’t appear to be joking. If he is, he’s got me totally fooled.
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Enjoys Long Walks on the Beach and The Idiot
“My ideal man doesn’t exist. This, at least, is what I had to conclude after visiting alikewise.com, the much-ballyhooed new site for ‘dating by the book,’ which purports to match people based on their taste in literature.” Ruth Franklin braves…
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The Range of Your Amazing Nothing
Lina ramona Vitkauskas asks, and her collection stands as an intrepid answer, the question as to why haute couture, avant-garde and post avant-garde cinema, Derrida, and marine life should be at odds, offering her reader startling juxtapositions vis a vis…
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Love in the Time of Terror Babies
“My parents, with admirable foresight, had their first child while they were on fellowships in the United States. My mother was in public health, and my father in a library-science program. Having an American baby was, my mother once said,…
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Chats With Random Men #3: Abraham
This week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…
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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #9
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: Andrew Shaffer’s Great Philosophers Who…
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Morning Coffee
Seed has an incredibly great slide show on animal dioramas at the American Natural History Museum. Antarctica trips for the very rich (the joke behind these is that you probably aren’t). Ira Glass on broadcasting’s failure of craft. (via Moviecitynews)…