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Vivid Cast of Characters: Book Club Roundup

Deborah Baker‘s The Convert made the review rounds this week: the LA Times, Forbes, Washington Post, and Kirkus Reviews all posted critiques of this peculiar and intriguing book. “The story of Maryam Jameelah is an extraordinary…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #75: The Three-Year Dry Hump

Set your limits. State your needs. Respect your boundaries. Then step back.

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #37: Snake Bite

In the Book of Job, a capricious, punishing God speaks from behind the obscuring protection of a whirlwind.

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Rumpus Sound Takes: Jay Reatard, Wild Man with a Vision

When Jay Reatard was alive, he got called anything from “possessed” to “total dick.” Looking back on his recorded legacy with the ease awarded by hindsight, I see that he…

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds

Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a…

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FUNNY WOMEN #53: An Editors’ Slush-Pile Meeting at the Backdoor Review

At Backdoor Review, we receive tens of thousands of submissions. We’ve collected a few cover letters and reprinted them now (without permission) with manuscript comments from our editors in italics.

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith

I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is…

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #88

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

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray

I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in…

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The Last Book I Loved: Orphans

The last book I loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s essay collection, Orphans—but in fact, I loved the book before I read it. Smitten with the small format, I plucked it from…

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Book Club Blog

One Quick Flash: Book Club Roundup

Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil has won the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for books. The US Review of Books writes: “By enfolding folk beliefs, tales, or superstitions into contemporary experience,…

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The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler

Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination…

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