Blogs
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #81: A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet
This isn’t a spotless life. There is much ahead, my immaculate little peach.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Lea Graham
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Lea Graham about her collection Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Lea Graham. Every month The…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Christopher Boucher
The Rumpus Book Club talks to Christopher Boucher about his debut novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, a decade’s worth of writing,
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Matthew Weinkam: The Last Book I Loved, About a Mountain
I often worry about over-hyping books. Nothing ruins a good novel or collection of stories quite as well as a glowing review. So when Nick Flynn calls John D’Agata’s latest book of creative nonfiction, About A Mountain, “utterly amazing” and…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #97
SCRATCH AND SNIFF ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Scratch and Sniff.
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Reviews for the last book we featured in our Rumpus Book Club!
Are you a part of the Rumpus book club? Remember last month’s book, Christopher Boucher’s debut novel How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive? Well, it‘s starting to get great reviews out there. This post on The Millions has referred to the novel…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #80: The Ordinary Miraculous
It’s almost never until later that we can draw a line between this and that.
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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…