Le Book Club Round-Up
Deus Ex Machina made the pages of The Wall Street Journal; reviewer Sam Sacks calls Andrew Altschul‘s novel about a reality TV show “heady and fast-paced.” SanJose.com also reviews Deus…
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Falling for Lidia
Chelsea Cain’s introduction to Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, which is the Rumpus Book Club’s March selection: Lidia and I are in therapy together. That’s what she calls it. …
Cheap Cab Rides: Friday Book Club Round-Up
Tao Lin gets mentioned in a Guardian article about the challenges of naming characters. “I chose names that would not cause the reader to feel like there was hidden meaning…
Josh Anastasia Reviews YTTB
Rumpus Book Club member Josh Anastasia reviews the club’s February pick, You Think That’s Bad: You Think That’s Bad is a collection of short stories from one of my favorite…
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Roy Kesey
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Roy Kesey about Pacazo, Faulkner, historiography, and cheap cab rides. This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month The Rumpus…
A Tricky Balance: Book Club Round-Up
“How do you satirize something that’s already a parody of itself?” asks Michael Schaub of NPR in his write-up of Andrew Altschul‘s Deus Ex Machina. Schaub finds Altschul’s attempts to…
The Rumpus Poetry Club Interviews Kirsten Kaschock
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl. This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with…
Pacazo. A Love Story.
Rumpus Book Club member Claudine Asbagh reviews the club’s January pick, Roy Kesey’s Pacazo: In his first novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey takes an idea that could have been fodder for…
Deus Ex GalleyCat
Our own Books editor Andrew Foster Altschul talks with GalleyCat about Deus Ex Machina and how to get your book reviewed on The Rumpus.
Constantine on Pacazo
Rumpus Book Club member Caitlin Constantine shares her thoughts on the club’s January selection, Roy Kesey’s Pacazo.
Back Out of All This Now I Am An Animal Full of Music: Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” — Emily Webb Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
Happy with Crocodiles
A short story by Jim Shepard, author of the forthcoming collection You Think That’s Bad, our Rumpus Book Club pick for February. *** Her envelope had hearts where the o’s…