The Last Book I Loved: Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
I am shitting my pants. Totally. Completely. And … well, figuratively. One night before my travel partner and I are scheduled to fly to Mumbai, she ditches me for Berlin. The…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Great Gatsby
I was eight years old the first time I heard of The Great Gatsby. My mom took my two teenage sisters to see the movie as soon as it was…
Throwing Poetry at People: Rumpus Book Club Roundup
Tayari Jones, author of the Rumpus Book Club’s May pick Silver Sparrow gets love from The Village Voice: “Jones… is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester.”…
Carolyn Lang: The Last Book I Loved, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
The last book that I loved was You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, which is about two friends, Will and Hand, who come into $32,000 around the same…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has an Ancient Heart
Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far, guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.
Mary Mann: The Last Book I Loved, History on a Personal Note: Stories
Two years ago, I ended a five-year relationship with a man who loved me. Very simply, it wasn’t enough anymore. Responses ranged from distraught to disappointment to disgust. My aunt…
Erin Dorsey: The Last Book I Loved, Wuthering Heights
I picked up this classic as one of my “Top Books to Read Before I Die.” One thing this list is teaching me is that you should banish all preconceived…
Why I Chose Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Tracy Smith’s LIFE ON MARS is a strong, surprising, and often beautiful book.
Ashley Bethard: The Last Book I Loved, Goldengrove
Sometimes you revisit a book you love, like Francine Prose’s Goldengrove. Once you finish reading this book for the third time, you start thinking about your near-hero worship of Prose…
Emily Keeler: The Last Book I Loved, Ghosts
César Aira’s Ghosts: Meaning-saturated, beautiful and complicated. A heat soaked hallucination, this short novel moved through the minutes of the last day of the year in a building so new…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #85
BROWN SUGAR ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing brown sugar.
Patty Wetli: The Last Book I Loved, Watership Down
I’d always assumed, mistakenly it turns out, that the book was about a sunken boat, with a vague notion that it maybe also had something to do with World War…