Blogs
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The Weekly Book Club Round-Up
-Maybe you are tired of looking at a computer screen. Maybe you’re just not a visual person. Maybe you want a new lens into Richard Yates, by Tao Lin. Whatever your needs, Largehearted Boy has just the right medicine: a…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #51: No Mystery About Sperm
Not a single one of us knows what the future holds.
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Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread
Today, in Books, Andrea Scrima reviews Jessica Treadway’s latest collection, Please Come Back to Me. Treadway won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2009. Read the review.
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The Last Book I Loved: Sick City
In classic noir fashion, Sick City opens with a death. Jeffrey, a male prostitute junkie, goes to wake up his lover and sugar daddy (a retired Los Angeles cop with a taste for kinky sex) only to find him dead.…
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FUNNY WOMEN #31: Damaris Dice, Stand-In Advice Columnist for Latina Magazine
Dear Damaris, I’ve been with this one hombre for almost two years. I’m actually pregnant with his bebe right now. And I’m wondering; where is the ring?
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A Close Reading By Way of Looking at the First Seven Lines of A Poem and Walt Whitman
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi delves into Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the club’s September selection, by writing the author a letter:
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Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Make sure to check out the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s online discussion with Shane Book, this month’s featured poetry author who brings us Ceiling of Sticks. You can read the transcript, in which book club members ask Book (real name)…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Tao Lin
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Tao Lin about Richard Yates, writing what you want to read, and when it’s okay to steal a book:
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #50: Strange Proposal
Snakes. Hummingbirds. Perhaps a polar bear.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #29: Brian Hansen in Conversation with C.W.
Three years ago I interviewed a number of friends in their mid-twenties, seemingly bright kids with no direction. I lost the digital recordings; here is all that remains from an interview with C.W., 27. We spoke at length in his dad’s kitchen…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Shane Book
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Shane Book about his poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC) bout in Las Vegas against Ricardo Lamas on August…