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I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live…

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Alex Tzelnic: The Last Book I Loved, Burmese Days

Confession time: I’ve never read 1984. Sure, it was assigned in high school, as were Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, and Great Expectations. I didn’t read those either (though, for…

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Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia

Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:

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August’s Poetry Book Club Selection

We are excited to announce Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection for the August Rumpus Poetry Book Club. This poetry collection, published by BOA Editions is the winner…

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The Last Book I Loved: West with the Night

Her mother was a nurse, shot in World War II in Nepal. She—my mother-in-law—was an Ivy League-educated, motorcycle-driving, garden-planting veterinarian in Vermont… with a pilot’s license. When she passed away…

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Amity Bacon: The Last Book I Loved, The Hunger Games

This summer, I find myself reading young adult fiction on the bus as inconspicuously as possible, wrapping my arm around the cover in such a way that no one will…

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The Last Book I Loved: Museum of the Weird

When we were all eight, the girls in my grade decided we had secret worlds. One world belonged to me and my best friend Chloe, and the other world belonged…

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Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.

Every day, terrible things happen in the world. Every damn day too many people die or suffer for reasons that defy comprehension.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #95

THE HAMBURGLAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Hamburglar.

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THE LONELY VOICE #12: Cheever in Albania Or The Lonely Voice Hates Travel Writing

There are few things more riveting than watching people gossip in a language you don’t understand.

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #39: It Gets Better

In late June, several days before Derek Jeter went yard with his milestone 3,000th hit as a Yankee, something even more incredible happened in the State of New York: the…

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #94

EATING ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing eating.

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Blogs

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne

Alex Tzelnic: The Last Book I Loved, Burmese Days

Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia

August’s Poetry Book Club Selection

The Last Book I Loved: West with the Night

Amity Bacon: The Last Book I Loved, The Hunger Games

The Last Book I Loved: Museum of the Weird

Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.

Ted Wilson Reviews the World #95

THE LONELY VOICE #12: Cheever in Albania Or The Lonely Voice Hates Travel Writing

A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #39: It Gets Better

Ted Wilson Reviews the World #94

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