Pacazo by Roy Kesey – Review
Josh Anastasia responds to January’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: Pacazo is a story about a man coming to terms with the murder of his wife and how to move on…
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Hinting at Meaning: Friday Book Club Round-Up
We’ve compiled links to footage of several interviews with Jim Shepard, whose You Think That’s Bad is our February Book Club pick. Truthdig has posted an excerpt of Andrew Foster…
The Trick of Thinking Through Infinity: Book Club Round-Up
I remember/ the trick of thinking through infinity, a crowd of eyes/ against an asphalt wall, writes Timothy Donnelly in his poem “The Cloud Corporation.” If you haven’t had the…
Interviews with Jim Shepard
The Rumpus Book Club’s February pick is You Think That’s Bad, a new collection of short stories by Jim Shepard. For the last decade, Shepard has been an open…
While Away the Hours: Book Club Round-Up
You can read notes from our book club discussion of Pacazo, Roy Kesey‘s new novel that reminded one reader of The Sound and the Fury, “with an unreliable narrator whose…
The Wonders of the Universe: The Book Club Round Up
Poetry gets so ignored. A moment to appreciate the bad-ass poets of the Rumpus Poetry Club and some of their accolades this past year: Timothy Donnelly‘s Cloud Corporation earned a…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her collection Lucky Fish.
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Andrew Foster Altschul
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Andrew Foster Altschul about Deus Ex Machina, Reality TV, the loss of truth, and what it’s like to visit a porn set in the name…
Book Club Round-Up
“San Francisco is the best place in the country to be a writer,” says author Andrew Altschul in a profile by Publisher’s Weekly about his new book Deux Ex Machina.…
“Reality, Really”
Publishers Weekly profiles Rumpus Books section editor Andrew Foster Altschul, who is also the author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club pick, Deus Ex Machina.
Early Thoughts on Deus Ex Machina
Rumpus Book Club member Jen George Burt on Deus Ex Machina. ** I think Deus Ex Machina is a modern greek tragedy – a creation myth of the new social…
Deus Ex Machina so far
Rumpus Book Club member Joseph M. Owens responds to this month’s book club selection, Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul. ** I always like to get my overall impressions…