Blogs
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Ross McMeekin: The Last Book I Loved, In the Lake of the Woods
Two of my family members recently passed away within a few months of each other. The loss burrowed into my fingertips; for a while pretty much every draft or story I began involved the recent death of a loved one…
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Rose Gowen: The Last Book I Loved, A Book of Memories
After I read Péter Nádas’s beautiful novella, “Le nu féminine en mouvement,” in the Winter 2010 issue of The Paris Review, I couldn’t believe it: who is this writer? Why had I never heard of him before? How did he…
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Sarah Simpson: The Last Books I Loved, Peace and War and Peace
Knowing that War and Peace is Richard Bausch’s favorite book, it seemed only right—especially considering its title—that I read his latest novel, Peace, on the heels of Count Tolstoy’s tome. Its brevity also appealed to me. After spending six months…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #96
OF MICE AND MEN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Of Mice and Men.
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August’s Rumpus Book Club Selection
August is upon us. This new month brings with it an exciting Rumpus Book Club selection—Alex Shakar’s Luminarium, published by Soho Press. The synopsis is as intriguing as the praise it’s been garnering. Dave Eggers offered his praise, calling it…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne
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 above. We had dinner a few months ago, where I…
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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 some strange reason, I finished Animal Dreams in an inspired…
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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 of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2011. Author Chris…
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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 after a bout with cancer, two weeks after the birth…
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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 know its title, and tilting the book just-so, so that…
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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 to every other eight-year old girl; and the clash between…