Orientation ♥
“The story collection is made up of moments, one after another, of startlingly poignant yet ostensibly ordinary interactions.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves this month’s selection, Orientation by…
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T. Jones on TNB
“It’s funny—when it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. For fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.” Tayari Jones, author of…
Lion’s Club: Book Club Roundup
Woot! Adam Levin won the NY Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award for The Instructions. Looks like Mr. Levin’s getting the drinks next time (the award comes with a $10,000…
Throwing Poetry at People: Rumpus Book Club Roundup
Tayari Jones, author of the Rumpus Book Club’s May pick Silver Sparrow gets love from The Village Voice: “Jones… is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester.”…
Why I Chose Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Tracy Smith’s LIFE ON MARS is a strong, surprising, and often beautiful book.
“Luminous Bruises in the Fog”: Book Club Roundup
Earthquakes breeding nuclear meltdowns, tornadoes razing towns in the South, immense tropical storms: the news never fails to feed us weather calamities. That’s why Jim Shepard‘s You Think That’s Bad…
“In Praise of The Rumpus Book Club”
“… the Rumpus Book Club is filled with extraordinarily adventurous, well-read, thoughtful omnivores of the literary variety. Everyone who loves to read should find themselves a group like this. I…
We All Feel Suspended: Book Club Round-Up
Dean Young is one of the freshest, boldest, most confident poets out there; his poems’ structures are completely unique, often winding out of control before settling into moments of recognition…
Timothy Donnelly
“…(at least in most cases) the writing of a poem is initiated by the articulation of a relatively vague idea or impulse, and the implications that emanate from that articulation…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Joseph Harrington
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Joseph Harrington about his recent collection Things Come On.
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Lidia Yuknavitch
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Lidia Yuknavitch about her new memoir, The Chronology of Water, her sexual life,
Why I Chose Fall Higher
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Dean Young’s Fall Higher as the April selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club: