Book Club Notes
This month, the Rumpus Book Club has been reading the latest novel from Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet. Here’s some of what other people have been saying about…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Cheryl Strayed
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Cheryl Strayed about Wild, finding forgiveness through writing, Sugar, being photoshopped, and more.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With D. A. Powell
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.
The Best Rumpus Book Club Baby
Rumpus Book Club member Kristy Elam shares an adorable ad for TRBC:
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aase Berg, Johannes Göransson and Garth Graeper
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly…
Last Day to Get Wild
Today is the very last day to join The Rumpus Book Club if you’re hoping to receive Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s book, Wild. Make your way over here to subscribe.
Notes from Treasure Island!!!
Author Sara Levine read a few chapters from her novel Treasure Island!!! (a Rumpus Book Club selection) at WORD bookstore in Brooklyn and said wonderfully interesting things during the Q &…
Why I Chose D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he selected D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club in February.
March’s Rumpus Book Club Selection
We are thrilled to announce that March’s Rumpus Book Club selection is Sugar’s book!
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Announces…
A lot, really. First of all, we’re about to chat with Aase Berg and Johannes Gorannson about Berg’s book Transfer Fat It’s the first time we’ve done a translation, and…
Diane Williams Q&A
McSweeney’s interviews Diane Williams, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Williams discusses the humor in her short story collection, being read to as…
February’s Rumpus Book Club Pick
February’s Rumpus Book Club selection is A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost. Warm up with this excerpt from Hawthorne Books, and if you’re not yet on-board, consider joining…