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An Invisible Giraffe. A Pyramid of Glass. A Development At Once Revealing and Occluding: Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation to be the group’s September selection.
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The Last Book I Loved: The House of Mirth
It’s fitting that I only finally read The House of Mirth, Wharton’s great novel about the decline and fall of a socialite by the name of Lily Bart, around the time I was leaving New York. Given my current state…
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Book Burning for God
City officials in Gainesville, FL have “denied a burn permit” for a church hoping to set fire to numerous copies of the Quran on September 11th. Not to be deterred, the church sent an email on Wednesday that read “City…
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Happy (Early) Birthday Ray Bradbury!
UCLA has a number of videos up to celebrate Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday, which is this Sunday. In one of the videos Bradbury explains, unequivocally, how he made it to 90: “You have to love life completely. I have been…
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Mortal Geography
Alexandra Teague’s charted worlds range from the exotic to the quotidian, from Tikal to a San Francisco classroom.
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Of Scallops and Clouds: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
-Tao Lin, author of the August book club pick Richard Yates, has become notorious for his pranks, cons, and general attempts to outwit his readers and/or neighborhood bookstore employees. So when the New York Observer‘s Christian Lorentzen set out to interview…
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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #3
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: Terese Svoboda’s Pirate Talk or…
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Morning Coffee
The future is awesome; generating power via whiskey and extreme parasailing. I don’t want to freak anyone out here, but the moon is maybe shrinking. The Times on expensive-ass fish tanks. Fake Criterion covers. Tangentially related: Truffaut’s last interview.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #25: 100% Nepotism
It’s the Internet, where I am plying my trade here, and it’s meant to be the Wild West—unregulated, unruly, unpredictable.
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Ms. Bassist
Today’s DEAR SUGAR question was posed by our very own Elissa Bassist. As her question revolves around writing, we figure now would be a good time to share some of our favorite Rumpus essays by Ms. Bassist: “A Baker’s Dozen…
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“A Masterpiece of American Fiction”
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, really likes Franzen’s latest novel. Join The Jonathan Franzen One-Off Book Club.