Blogs
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Rumpus Book Club Hat Tip
“I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus. That’s how I heard about Deborah Baker’s The Convert.” Bookforum reviews editor Michael Miller from an interview at Publishers Weekly.
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National Poetry Month, Day 1: “Bronze Age” by Shane Book
Shane Book’s collection of poems, Ceiling of Sticks, was the first book chosen by the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You can check out Poetry Book Club Board member Camille Dungy’s rationale for choosing it here, and you can read the…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside
But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.
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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.…