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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka's S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka's place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.

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Coming in April from The Rumpus Book Clubs

We’re very excited about our selections for April, and we hope that you will be as well. Maybe so excited that if you aren’t a member yet, you’ll become one.…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kathleen Ossip

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kathleen Ossip about her new book, The Do Over, Catholic school, the afterlife, poem-like things, and how form sets sorely-needed limits.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tom Sleigh

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tom Sleigh about his new book, Station Zed,, how reportage and the surreal can combine inside a poem, and secularizing the mysteries of death, redemption, and resurrection.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh talks about her book McGlue, inventing a character from an 1850s newspaper article, and revisiting her work years after she finished writing it.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Marie Hoffman

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her new book, Paper Doll Fetus, twilight sleep, and the importance of giving voice to the voiceless.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran chats with the Rumpus Book Club about how Wolverhampton has changed over the years, the forthcoming film version of her new novel How to Build a Girl, chapatis, and how Blur hogs the pool table.

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Up Next in the Rumpus Book Clubs

There’s still time to get the December selections if you join either (or both!) the Rumpus Book and Poetry Book Clubs. What makes our book clubs special? Well, our first…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika Meitner

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erika Meitner about her new book, Copia, writing about Detroit without writing ruin porn, form, and now-empty shopping malls.

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Why I Chose Michael Bazzett’s You Must Remember This

Camille Dungy discusses why she selected Michael Bazzett's forthcoming You Must Remember This for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Joshua Shenk

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Joshua Wolf Shenk about his new book, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, creative intimacy, how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together, and the myth of the solo genius.

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