Blogs
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Rumpus Women or a roast beef sandwich? Now you don’t have to choose.
We just received copies of our November Rumpus Book Club selection (and the first-ever publication from Rumpus Paper Internets): Rumpus Women Volume I: Personal Essays by Women edited by Julie Greicius & Elissa Bassist. We’re obviously very excited. Here’s a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #57
MY COUCH ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my couch.
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In a Strange Room
Today, in Book Review, John Wilwol reviews Damon Galgut’s latest novel, In a Strange Room.
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The Eyeball #35: Un Chien Andalou
I’m teaching a class at Richard Hugo House in which we look at experimental films as writing prompts. I’ve always wanted to teach a film class, and marrying writing exercises to viewings of films seemed like a good way to…
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Rumpus Book Club Round-Up: Breaking Up and Getting Back Together
The Rumpus got busy reviewing its own book club picks this week, with Kevin Thomas’s comic review of Lan Samantha Chang‘s All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost and book club member John Brown’s effusive critique of Adam Levin‘s The Instructions.…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #53: “A Closed-Circuit System”
Is there any group of people on the planet more eagle-eyed than eighth graders? I think not
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Book Club Member John Brown reviews The Instructions
The Instructions is this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection. Published by McSweeney’s the book is 1,024 pages. John Brown was probably the first member of the book club to finish it.
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The Cloud Corporation
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s September pick, Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, has been reviewed by The New Yorker. We’re not saying it’s solely because the collection was a Rumpus pick… but we’re not not saying that either.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #56
FLEET WEEK! ★★★★★★ (6 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Fleet Week!
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Book Club Wonders
-How big is Adam Levin‘s The Instructions? Joseph Michael Owens reveals four demonstrative photos. -What does Tao Lin sound like in person? A clip of him reading at Litquake on October 4th. -Is Lin’s Richard Yates immensely relatable? Corey K.…
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Introducing Rumpus Women, Vol. I
We’re delighted to present the introduction to the first and most extraordinary book ever published by The Rumpus!