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  • Sari Botton

Ghosts Are Real, At Least In Publishing

  • Sari Botton
  • March 26, 2012
"Ghostwriter" is a problematic word. It gives people the idea that we have some kind of other worldly power; that we’re able to hover over clients somewhere in the ether and read their minds, then write their books using only our own words.
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A Place Where We Are Everything

  • Roxane Gay
  • March 23, 2012
Oftentimes when having difficult conversations about complex topics, certain kinds of people (the small-minded, feeble-minded, profoundly ignorant, etc.) will try to derail the conversation.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With D. A. Powell

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • March 23, 2012
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.
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“Winter Lottery,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Michael McGriff

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  • March 23, 2012
Winter Lottery In the gray, frozen months, the pack rats moved into the garage and ruined everything.
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Drinking a Glass of Light

  • Joey Connelly
  • March 23, 2012
The emotional theme of the volume, the nostalgia and death that is announced in the book’s title and reaffirmed in almost every poem to some extent, is what I know…
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On Sending, and Receiving, Letters

  • Matthew Specktor
  • March 22, 2012
Letter writing is one of those things said to fall under the rubric of “lost art.”  Like tango dancing or throwing a knuckleball, whatever semi-vanished pastime we’re getting sentimental about…
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Wind and Rain Make No Difference

  • T Fleischmann
  • March 21, 2012
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom could fit neatly into any number of contemporary-sounding categories: hybrid text, art book, lyric essay, etc. It is a book that relies on interdependence…
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FUNNY WOMEN #77: Penal Codes

  • Janine Brito, Elissa Bassist, and Jewelie
  • March 20, 2012
Following the trend of female lawmakers submitting bills to regulate men’s health, we decided to do the same. We are three straight, gay, single, married, white, Cuban, non-practicing Jewish women, which…
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The Alienable Rights of Women

  • Roxane Gay
  • March 19, 2012
We are having a national debate about abortion, birth control, and reproductive freedom, and men are directing that debate.
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The Last Book I Loved: White Noise

  • Bruce Watson
  • March 19, 2012
In the mid-1980s, I fled Ronald Reagan’s America for the jungles of Costa Rica. Before leaving–forever, I thought–I shipped two boxes of paperbacks to the tropics. I would soon read…
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LONELY VOICE #18: Kafka the Dad (Part Three of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)

  • Peter Orner
  • March 19, 2012
In an essay called “The I Without a Self,” W.H. Auden tells us about a rumor “which if true might have occurred in a Kafka story.” That is that Kafka,…
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A Square Grows Gloomy

  • Jim Zukowski
  • March 17, 2012
Especially for a reader coming to Trakl for the first time, Firmage’s accessible introduction and organization of the poems provide an excellent overview of Trakl’s development as a poet and…
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