Signs of Spring: Book Club Round-Up
Time to start April’s book club selection, The Convert, by Deborah Baker. Says Bookforum’s reviews editor Michael Miller: “I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out…
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Rumpus Book Club Hat Tip
“I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus. That’s how I heard about Deborah Baker’s The Convert.” Bookforum reviews…
Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch opens with a sad, heart-wrenching story of a stillborn baby.
Happy Hour: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Rumpus Book club reveals how Jim Shepard might just be your favorite catastrophist. Lidia Yuknavitch‘s sentences can be rambling and unorthodox, says Books and Brews blogger of her new…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Noelle Kocot
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Noelle Kocot about her collection The Bigger World.
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jim Shepard
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Jim Shepard about his story collection You Think That's Bad, alpine life, the empathetic reach, and imperial Rome.
David S. Atkinson: A Book Club Member Reviews The Chronology of Water
Rumpus Book Club member David S. Atkinson review’s this month’s selection, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water: Water is an unstoppable force.
Are You a Romantic? Friday Book Club Round-Up
Roxane Gay examines Lidia Yuknavitch‘s Chronology of Water, the current Rumpus Book Club selection. Her review is organized into handy sections, and she ends with an affirmative: “I will just…
Sibling Rivalry: Jim Shepard, You Think That’s Bad?
Rumpus Book Club member, Anna Newbold, shares her thoughts about last month’s Book Club selection, Jim Shepard’s You Think That’s Bad: As an only child, I feel reluctant to enter…
Why Not Read It Three Times?
“Then I heard about the book from a friend so I ordered it and the book arrived and I read it almost immediately and then I read it again and…
Why I Chose Things Come On
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On as the March selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Devastation. Conflation. Preoccupation. Disintegration.…
Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
I don’t normally go out of my way to write reviews for poetry collections when I can just post a poem and let it speak. The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot…