Blogs
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How the Real Work Is Done
We can all have a better life if we make one.
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Chris Huntington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brothers Karamazov
We were in the “international bookstore” of Xiamen, China, which is really a Chinese junk and bookstore but has half a dozen shelves of English books (such as Gossip Girl and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People). My wife found a Signet Classics…
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The Last Book I Loved: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
I was browsing through my favorite small indie bookstore (Farley’s in New Hope, PA; it’s magnificent) when the cover and title of this book captured my eye. A book displaying peaceful nighttime ocean scene, mildly disrupted by the UFO beaming…
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Their Faces Blur in Every Mirror
Darling writes with incredible crispness, but the world she describes remains cold, stark, upper-class, and difficult to relate to.
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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1977 novel, begins with an epigraph–a quote from Salvador Elizondo’s The Graphographer–about the watery line between reality and its representation in language. “I write,” it begins. “I write that I am writing.…
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Rumpus Original Poetry: A History of Melancholia: Glossary of Terms
beloved. The raison d’être of the melancholic’s affliction. Consider the graceful line of his wool coat, its fabric dark against the towering snowdrifts.
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Sean Morse: Last Book I Loved, Senselessness
The last book I loved was Senselessness, written by by Horacio Castellanos Moya, and translated by Katherine Silver. I wish I could indulge a paranoid fantasy. Maybe a nice conspiracy theory centered around me. It really unburdens a person from the decision-making…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #116
TURTLE DOVES ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing turtle doves.
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These Veins of Leaf, Hand, Storm and Stream
Ideally, critics and teachers are humbled by their vocations and the artistry the vocations expose them to, encouraging effort to stay fresh , emotionally resonant and intellectually worthwhile. Say yes to all of the above when the subject is Di…
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Panic Attacks and Poetics
HTML Giant converses with Nate Slawson about his new book Panic Attack, USA. Slawson also discusses the American sonnet, how music led him to poetry, and author readings. “And I do a lot of rocking: reading books, writing, giving readings.…
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The Last Book I Loved: Play It As It Lays
I love this book because it’s hard and true. It scares and haunts me.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter
I realize I’m especially drawn to memoirs, novels and story collections in which the author or protagonist is at odds with one parent or both, and wrestles with feeling like a tremendous disappointment to them.