Blogs
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The Poetry Book Club Interviews Harmony Holiday
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball.
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Joel Aurora: The Last Book I Loved, Desperate Characters
I work at a bookstore in Berkeley, California; so, as one can imagine, I get and give book recommendations often. Many of these recommendations I am compelled to ignore, because between that job and my other one, the writing I…
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“SUGAR SAYS” Poster Now On Sale!
A beautiful high-quality matte paper poster made up of quotes from everyone’s favorite advice columnist, Sugar!
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jon-Jon Goulian
What is the chance of one of those books living up to its pre-release hype? Of earning back its advance?
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FUNNY WOMEN #59: Looking for Best Friends, m4ww
Craigslist is unfiltered potential. It’s criteria gone crazy. In a single day, you can get ripped off, score free kittens,
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #93
NEWT GINGRICH ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Newt Gingrich.
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Sharon Harrigan: The Last Book I Loved, The Ticking is the Bomb
The first thing I noticed about this book, before I even wrestled with its gruesome and tender topics, is the style. Flynn is a poet, which is clear from the first sentence.
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Why I Chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Book Club board member Sean Singer on why he chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You as the July selection for the club.
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July’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: It’s Not Too Late!
This month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. It’s not too late to sign up to receive this month’s book! How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Boucher’s debut novel, published by Melville House…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Rick” by Jericho Brown
Poets fall in love with poems all the time, so much so that the question “what poem did you love last” isn’t really a question, but an invitation to wax poetic about the current darling in your eye. Because the…
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Vocabulary Primer
This is a vocabulary-based reference for Roxane Gay’s recently published “Still With the Scarlet Letters.”
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #79: Soul-Sucking Spirit Death
When people allow dark crazy thoughts to rule their actions and emotions they like to drag other people into that dark crazy space, too.