Blogs
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Sarah Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, Something is out there.
Green is the dominant color on the jacket of Richard Bausch’s latest short story collection. A red-headed woman (or girl; it’s hard to tell which) stands in the foreground at the bottom right corner.
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The Last Book I Loved: I Love You More Than You Know
I moved to New York City in July. I was unemployed, rejected from graduate school, and had $6.29 in my bank account. It seemed logical. I’d spent the last year incapable of making the transition from college to the “real…
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Joseph Michael Owens: The Last Book I Loved, The Instructions
I flew to Chicago for a single night in October, just to hear Adam Levin read from the last book I truly loved, The Rumpus’ own Book Club pick, The Instructions. At the time of Levin’s Chicago reading, I was nearly…
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“The Surf Guru”
Listen to Doug Dorst, author of the Rumpus Book Club‘s July pick, The Surf Guru, read the collection’s title story.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #59
HALLOWEEN, 2010 ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Halloween, 2010.
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6 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
We’ve mentioned the size of Rumpus Book Club pick The Instructions a few times. But how long did it take author Adam Levin to write the behemoth book? “I worked on average six hours a day, seven days a week…
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The Eyeball #37: Kenneth Anger
Are there some films you have to take drugs to enjoy? I asked this question toward the end of this week’s session of the class on experimental films I’m teaching at Richard Hugo House, after spending two hours with the…
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For All Your Thrills: Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Columbia Spectator talks to Timothy Donnelly about his new collection of poems, The Cloud Corporation, revealing his patience with the craft, propensity for pauses, and how he relishes the “quirky aspects of language.” The Chicago Tribune calls Adam Levin‘s…
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Dear Old Dad…
Today in Book Review, Regina Marler reviews Anthony De Sa’s new collection of stories, Barnacle Love. Read the review.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor
Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh quarterback disgraced last spring when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her in a bar, is back on the field after serving a four-game suspension, and his Steelers are an impressive 5-1.
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Jeffrey Simpson: The Last Book I Loved, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The last book that I truly loved reading was John Vaillant’s book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The story is set in the Russian taiga (boreal forest) village of Sobolonye near Vladivostok, Russia’s secretive Pacific port, an…
