Book Club Blog
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Nancy Lili Gonzalez: The Last Book of Poetry I Loved, The Network
Jena Osman’s The Network is the best freaking thing I’ve read all year! Talk about brain arousal, wow. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It gave me nightmares the way falling asleep in school only could.
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“The Surf Guru”
Listen to Doug Dorst, author of the Rumpus Book Club‘s July pick, The Surf Guru, read the collection’s title story.
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6 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
We’ve mentioned the size of Rumpus Book Club pick The Instructions a few times. But how long did it take author Adam Levin to write the behemoth book? “I worked on average six hours a day, seven days a week…
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For All Your Thrills: Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Columbia Spectator talks to Timothy Donnelly about his new collection of poems, The Cloud Corporation, revealing his patience with the craft, propensity for pauses, and how he relishes the “quirky aspects of language.” The Chicago Tribune calls Adam Levin‘s…
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Notes from an Adam Levin Reading
Rumpus Book Club member Robert Pham attended an Adam Levin reading yesterday. Here he shares his notes on the event: “Ready to rock?” I overhear from behind me. “Rock!” Adam Levin drove up from Chicago for a 7 PM reading…
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Little Reptiles and How to Draw a Hamster
In a new artistic video by Amanda Joy, Surf Guru author Doug Dorst reads his story “Little Reptiles,” and creepy crawlies start to come out of the woodworks (well, background). In another artistic video, Richard Yates author Tao Lin discusses…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club with Timothy Donnelly
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Timothy Donnelly about his poetry collection, The Cloud Corporation.
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Rumpus Women or a roast beef sandwich? Now you don’t have to choose.
We just received copies of our November Rumpus Book Club selection (and the first-ever publication from Rumpus Paper Internets): Rumpus Women Volume I: Personal Essays by Women edited by Julie Greicius & Elissa Bassist. We’re obviously very excited. Here’s a…
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Rumpus Book Club Round-Up: Breaking Up and Getting Back Together
The Rumpus got busy reviewing its own book club picks this week, with Kevin Thomas’s comic review of Lan Samantha Chang‘s All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost and book club member John Brown’s effusive critique of Adam Levin‘s The Instructions.…
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Book Club Member John Brown reviews The Instructions
The Instructions is this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection. Published by McSweeney’s the book is 1,024 pages. John Brown was probably the first member of the book club to finish it.
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The Cloud Corporation
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s September pick, Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, has been reviewed by The New Yorker. We’re not saying it’s solely because the collection was a Rumpus pick… but we’re not not saying that either.
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Book Club Wonders
-How big is Adam Levin‘s The Instructions? Joseph Michael Owens reveals four demonstrative photos. -What does Tao Lin sound like in person? A clip of him reading at Litquake on October 4th. -Is Lin’s Richard Yates immensely relatable? Corey K.…