Blogs
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Deus Ex GalleyCat
Our own Books editor Andrew Foster Altschul talks with GalleyCat about Deus Ex Machina and how to get your book reviewed on The Rumpus.
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Constantine on Pacazo
Rumpus Book Club member Caitlin Constantine shares her thoughts on the club’s January selection, Roy Kesey’s Pacazo.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #73
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Large Hadron Collider.
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The Last Book I Loved: Room
I sat on my surfboard dangling my feet into the cold ocean, as the setting sun brightened the sky with pinks and oranges. Out on the water, away from the busyness of Los Angeles, there isn’t a man-made sound to…
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Back Out of All This Now I Am An Animal Full of Music: Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” — Emily Webb Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
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Amy Bergen: The Last Book I Loved, The Interrogative Mood
You could read this book about three hundred times and not get bored. “Are you given comfort or made nervous by ball bearings?… Do you tolerate speech impediments in newscasters?… Is there any hope? Do we need galoshes?… If there…
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Arlene McKanic: The Last (Poetry) Book I Loved, Snapshots from Istanbul
First of all, I have no idea how to review a book of poetry. Not formally anyway, because I don’t know the difference between an iambic pentameter or a dithyramb. I don’t know how to scan. I don’t know what…
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The Last Book I Loved: Turtle Diary
The tempting line of thinking for lonely people is that if only there were somebody who’d understand, we could somehow be less alone.
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Charlotte Freeman: The Last Book I Loved, The Death of the Heart
Was it the last book I loved, or just one of the ones I come back to again and again, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart? This winter, once again, it was necessary somehow to go back to this…
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Happy with Crocodiles
A short story by Jim Shepard, author of the forthcoming collection You Think That’s Bad, our Rumpus Book Club pick for February. *** Her envelope had hearts where the o’s in my name should have been and I tore it…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #72
SHORTS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing shorts.
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Pacazo by Roy Kesey – Review
Josh Anastasia responds to January’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: Pacazo is a story about a man coming to terms with the murder of his wife and how to move on in the face of tragedy; the stories that we tell…