Blogs
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Why Not Read It Three Times?
“Then I heard about the book from a friend so I ordered it and the book arrived and I read it almost immediately and then I read it again and one more time for good measure.” Roxane Gay reviews The…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #66: The Gentlest Possible Version of the Truth
Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.
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Why I Chose Things Come On
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On as the March selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Devastation. Conflation. Preoccupation. Disintegration. Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On (Wesleyan UP) is a book…
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“Campbell McGrath” a Rumpus Original Poem by Nick Demske
Campbell Mcgrath I’ll campbell mcgrath your fucking buttsack you little bitch. Campbell mcgrath.
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H. William Davis: The Last Book I Loved, Housekeeping
The winter is rough, and I live under a bridge hanging over a creek which freezes solid and blocks me from the rest of the world. You can’t rush past this bridge, it will knock you on your ass, send…
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FUNNY WOMEN #47: Become a Woman Celebrated During Women’s History Month
As American women, we are privileged to have every March dedicated to our accomplishments. For thirty-one incredible days, we can walk into any elementary school classroom and see our sisters’ faces decoupaged on pink poster board alongside bullet points of…
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The Last Book I Loved: Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
To live as an outsider or outlaw is a lonely endeavor, but a group of outsiders becomes a community.
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Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
I don’t normally go out of my way to write reviews for poetry collections when I can just post a poem and let it speak. The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot is the most recent selection for The Rumpus Poetry Club. If…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #76
WILSON, THE JEOPARDY! ROBOT ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Wilson, the Jeopardy! robot.
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Molly Colin: The Last Book I Loved, My Life as a Russian Novel
Let’s say I’m on a French train enroute to meet my boyfriend, a prominent French writer. I open that day’s copy of Le Monde and there’s a controlling, erotic story by him about an unnamed woman who, just like me,…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Heather Havrilesky
I wasn’t surprised to find that I enjoyed Havrilesky’s book and really related to it. There is so much overlap in our stories, I should probably hate her for beating me to the finish line by miles – thousands of…
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Le Book Club Round-Up
Deus Ex Machina made the pages of The Wall Street Journal; reviewer Sam Sacks calls Andrew Altschul‘s novel about a reality TV show “heady and fast-paced.” SanJose.com also reviews Deus Ex Machina, saying “it is enough to make you doubt…