Blogs
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Fall’s Rumpus Book Club Selections
The Rumpus Book Club is proudly presenting Zipper Mouth, Laurie Weeks’s debut novel as our October pick. Published by the Feminist Press, it tells the story of a New York junkie, along with the “exalted night-club epiphanies” and “devastating morning-after…
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Why I Chose Bear, Diamonds and Crane
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan’s Bear, Diamonds and Crane as the October selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #105
BRAD, THE FRONT DESK CLERK AT THE HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brad, the front desk clerk at the Holiday Inn…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Meghan O’Rourke
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Meghan O’Rourke about her poetry collection Once.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #87: In the Direction of Real Life
In fear and in pain and in faith, we swim there, to wherever that is, in the direction of real life.
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Hannah Kingsley-Ma: The Last Book I Loved, The Great Gatsby
Lately, I’ve found myself in that kind of frenetic stage of higher education where I feel compelled to read all the books I’ve been told deeply matter. I figure reading the chosen few masterpieces is one of those requisite steps…
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Cortney Phillips: The Last Book I Loved, Property
I didn’t just love Valerie Martin’s Property—I devoured it, thought about it for weeks, forced it upon every single one of my reading friends, and even initiated a brief correspondence with the writer because I just had to talk about…
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Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Making Toast
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt is a lovely memoir written by a prestigious author / journalist / columnist about how, following the death of his daughter, he and his wife Ginny move in to help their son-in-law raise their three…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #104
KERMIT THE FROG ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Kermit the Frog.
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Roxane Gay: The Last Book I Loved, This Is Not Your City
When I was a kid, I loved participating in my school’s science fair each year even though I did not necessarily have any aptitude for the scientific. My experiments were never that inspiring but I certainly thought they were—volcanoes erupting…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions
Real change happens on the level of the gesture.