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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: If I’d Known You Were Coming by Kate Milliken
What we do to each other in moments breeds a kind of emotional genealogy that can’t be undone. The characters in Kate Milliken’s debut collection, If I’d Known You Were…
Lit-Link Round-up
Neil Gaiman on why our future depends on libraries, reading and writing, in The Guardian. The history of the dystopian novel. Submit to the Danahy Fiction Prize at the University…
Last Book I Loved: Thieves I’ve Known
Thomas H. McNeely explains why Tom Kealey's THIEVES I'VE KNOWN is the last book he loved.
He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs by Leonard Gontarek
A. V. Christie reviews Leonard Gontarek's He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs today in Rumpus Poetry.
Next Letter For Kids: Michael Reisman
We’re sending our next Letter For Kids from Michael Reisman! Michael is the author of the Simon Bloom Series, which follows the story of the title character who finds a…
X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
Rebecca Hazelton reviews X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Book Club Discussion with Poe Ballantine
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Poe Ballantine about Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, his nonfiction book about the unsolved murder of his neighbor that is as much a memoir about his family and their small town as it is a true-crime story.
Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell's Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.
A Request to the Poetry Foundation
As I hope you already know, lots of writers live in less than ideal economic circumstances. Many are self-employed or under-employed, and even with the PPACA (also known as Obamacare)…
Lit-Link Round-up
Narcissists believe themselves more creative than others, and consequently engage in more creative pursuits. A finding in equal parts hilarious and depressing? Faulkner’s “splendid failure.”
The Last Book I Loved: Tradition
Antonia Crane explains why TRADITION by Marci Blackman is the last book she loved.