Blogs
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Ylajali Hansen: The Last Book I Loved, The Driver’s Seat
It was in Crete that I first came to curse short skirts. Six of them — three cotton, two denim — I had with me in a navy blue American Traveler suitcase, which sat, for the duration of my three-week…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #32: The Quarterback Birthright
When you hear the word rivalry, do you think of old-fashioned sibling throat-grabbing? Are you reminded, for instance, of the moment in the Book of Genesis when Joseph’s brothers rip off his famous ornamented coat and sell their annoyingly prophetic…
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Arlene McKanic: The Last Book I Loved, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, the latest novel by the prolific Walter Mosley, is one of the best books I’ve ever read — and I’ve read a lot of books, including those from a fair amount by dead white…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Adam Levin
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Adam Levin about The Instructions, Bar Mitzvahs, thinking you’re the Messiah, and what it’s like to publish a 1,000+ page book.
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Ray Shea: The Last Book I Loved, The Sound of Building Coffins
When I first bought The Sound of Building Coffins, by Louis Maistros, I was already in the middle of another book. My girlfriend Linda was visiting me in New Orleans. Her semester at the University of Michigan had just ended,…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Darin Strauss
More than anyone else, though, Strauss holds himself up to intense examination and scrutiny, revealing very human, and in some cases unflattering, reactions and defenses over the years.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #62
ANDY ROONEY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Andy Rooney.
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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, The Master and Margarita
A poet named Homeless and his friend Berlioz, the editor of a literary magazine, sit on a park bench at the Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, drinking apricot soda and discussing a poem Homeless has written about Jesus.
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Intoxication with the Glory: Book Club Round-Up
The Guardian‘s Nicholas Lezard examines Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates. “It is all achingly hip,” Lezard writes, “in its studied avoidance of the depths that literary fiction is meant to plumb. And that might be the end of the matter –…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #57: That Ecstatic Parade
You mustn’t live with people who wish to annihilate you.
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The Blurb #20: Joy Is a Job
I, too, want to feel a buzz, but I have no illusions. It takes effort. Reading good books requires discipline.