Blogs
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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!
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The Last Book I Loved: Troubling Love
According to Europa Edition’s website, Elena Ferrante, one of Italy’s most important and acclaimed contemporary authors, has successfully shunned public attention and kept her whereabouts and her true identity concealed. I understand. Troubling Love is a brilliant rendering of a…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Lan Samantha Chang
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Lan Samantha Chang about All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost , MFA programs, writers experiencing non-writing periods, and biker bars.
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Christopher Forsley: The Last Book I Loved, Blue Movie
Every time I watch a porno—whether it’s Lesbians in the Produce Section or Cheerleader Tryouts with Coach Lester—I start critiquing the plot, the acting, and even the lighting. Why doesn’t, I ask myself, a real director make a porno, a…
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Scott Onak: The Last Book I Loved, Satori in Paris
I didn’t need any books: I was finishing up grad school in Idaho and moving to—well—that wasn’t quite known to me. But here was a building on the Latah County Fairgrounds full of books, and here was Satori in Paris…