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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy

When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina…

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Early Thoughts on Deus Ex Machina

Rumpus Book Club member Jen George Burt on Deus Ex Machina. ** I think Deus Ex Machina is a modern greek tragedy – a creation myth of the new social…

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Ted Wilson reviews the World #65

GAYLE KING ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Gayle King.

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Daniel Roberts: The Last Book I Loved, The Secret History

In 2010, half of which I spent in grad school, I read scores of novels and short story collections, and liked many of them. I adored Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. I…

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Deus Ex Machina so far

Rumpus Book Club member Joseph M. Owens responds to this month’s book club selection, Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul. ** I always like to get my overall impressions…

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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren

I wrote the book with a tremendous suspension of disbelief; I wrote it as if no one was ever going to read it. I know that sounds like a cliché.

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Close By and Personal: A Book Club Round Up

Poet and essayist S.X. Rosenstock recaps a night in West Hollywood with readers from Rumpus Women, Volume 1 on The Huffington Post. “Prior to this I’ve never been at a…

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jena Osman

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Jena Osman about her collection The Network.

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #59: The Holidays are Hell(ish) Edition

Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself.

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Why I Chose Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Lucky Fish for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Lucky Fish as the fifth selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #32: Rebecca Steinitz in Conversation with a Chef

My husband, Sam Putnam, is the chef of a popular new restaurant, which I’m not going to name because it’s already gotten plenty of publicity. I wanted to interview him…

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Ryan Pittington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a year ago, when a lot of people read it – when I was seeing it in airports. I’m…

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