Blogs
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #75
THE FIGHT I IMAGINED BETWEEN A GIANT MAN AND A REGULAR-SIZED MAN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the fight I imagined between a giant…
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Kyenne Williams: The Last Book I Loved, Let’s Take the Long Way Home
I knew I would like this book, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, because it’s about a friendship between two women that was deep and marvelous (the book and the women).
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Cheap Cab Rides: Friday Book Club Round-Up
Tao Lin gets mentioned in a Guardian article about the challenges of naming characters. “I chose names that would not cause the reader to feel like there was hidden meaning in them, or that the characters were symbolic or the…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #65: Transcend
Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.
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Matthew Stranach: The Last Book I Loved, Night Work
I do not play hockey. I do not watch hockey on TV. I have no memories of youthful visits to bone-cold arenas at five o’clock in the morning to thwack pucks. Many of my friends go batshit crazy when their…
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FUNNY WOMEN #45: One-Handed Reading
Loads of people have slept with authors or well-read individuals, but what would it be like to sleep with a book?
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Josh Anastasia Reviews YTTB
Rumpus Book Club member Josh Anastasia reviews the club’s February pick, You Think That’s Bad: You Think That’s Bad is a collection of short stories from one of my favorite writers, Jim Shepard. There are eleven stories in the collection,…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Roy Kesey
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Roy Kesey about Pacazo, Faulkner, historiography, and cheap cab rides. This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month The Rumpus Book Club hosts a discussion online with the book club…
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A Tricky Balance: Book Club Round-Up
“How do you satirize something that’s already a parody of itself?” asks Michael Schaub of NPR in his write-up of Andrew Altschul‘s Deus Ex Machina. Schaub finds Altschul’s attempts to do so pretty successful, calling the novel brilliantly observed and…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
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The Rumpus Poetry Club Interviews Kirsten Kaschock
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl. This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Kirsten Kaschock. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts…
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Pacazo. A Love Story.
Rumpus Book Club member Claudine Asbagh reviews the club’s January pick, Roy Kesey’s Pacazo: In his first novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey takes an idea that could have been fodder for a mediocre mystery – a man searching for the truth…