Blogs
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Drake
Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl and now The Stud Book, discusses the physicality of characters’ bodies, the complicated issues women face while aging, and the crucial nature of writing communities.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Art of Communion
There comes a time in the process of writing a poem when you find yourself putting the reader’s interests and desires ahead of your own as the poet. Not that the reader is a potted plant, I mean. Because the…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #51: Free For One and All
Dean Wareham is a great writer, and possessed of a strikingly astringent and dry-eyed view of things without pity or self-pity or undue kindness, and what follows, I trust, will give abundant evidence of this.
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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 Coming, are bound to the emotional aftermath of their family…
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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 of Tampa. David Michael Lukas on “when the news and…
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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.
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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.
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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 book that lets him control the laws of physics. Simon…
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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.
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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…
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Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Roberto Carlos Garcia reviews Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render: An Apocalypse today in Rumpus Poetry.