Blogs
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FUNNY WOMEN #49: RE: Interesting Article
Dad, Thanks so much for your most recent email! It’s been awhile since we’ve last spoken (no hard feelings, it was White Sox season, I know), so I can hardly express how great it was to see your name in…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #80
RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR YOU BY RICHARD MARX ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Right Here Waiting for You by Richard Marx.
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Luuk Imhann: The Last Book I Loved, A Moveable Feast
I knew I would love A Moveable Feast, as it deals with Hemingway’s personal life as a young writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book isn’t regarded as fiction, though the style is very similar to The Sun Also…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #68: The Bad Things You Did
I don’t think your path to wholeness is walking backward on the trail.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Triggering Town
When I read Richard Hugo’s “The Triggering Town” essay some years ago, I understood it intuitively and from my own experience of writing.
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Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch opens with a sad, heart-wrenching story of a stillborn baby.
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The Last Books I Loved: After Man and Man After Man
A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man After Man (1990). After Man is a credible paleontology/speculative fiction…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #79
MOUNT RUSHMORE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mount Rushmore.
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Lydia Heberling: The Last Book I Loved, After the Quake
I feel like now is an inappropriate time to admit that the last book I loved is a book called After the Quake by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a book more or less about Japan’s last devastating earthquake in Kobe.…
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THE LONELY VOICE #9: We Don’t Have to Live Great Lives
I spent most of today re-reading Andre Dubus’s “Voices From the Moon”.[1] It is one of those stories. When you finish it you concentrate a little harder on your own breathing because you feel a little more alive. Because you’re reminded…
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Happy Hour: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Rumpus Book club reveals how Jim Shepard might just be your favorite catastrophist. Lidia Yuknavitch‘s sentences can be rambling and unorthodox, says Books and Brews blogger of her new book The Chronology of Water. “Easily the most important thing…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Noelle Kocot
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Noelle Kocot about her collection The Bigger World.