Blogs
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The Instructions Ships Today!
The Instructions by Adam Levin. A debut novel, 1,024 pages, published byMcSweeney’s and rumored to be the best book McSweeney’s has ever put out, is the next Rumpus Book Club selection. Today is the last day to sign up for the Rumpus Book Club and…
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The Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Lan Samantha Chang‘s novel All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost appeared in the New York Times Book Review, making her and Tao Lin the 3rd and 4th Rumpus Book Club authors we’ve chosen who’s also been reviewed by New York’s…
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C
Today, in Book Review, John Wilwol reviews Tom McCarthy’s latest novel, C, recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake
Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
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Why I Chose Elizabeth Alexander’s Crave Radiance for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Elizabeth Alexander’s Crave Radiance as the third selection of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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The Man Who Guarded the Bomb
Today, in Book Review, Matt McGregor reviews George Orfalea’s debut collection, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Blind Side
I remember being 18 years old, secretly thinking that all the good writers were dead or past their prime. I wanted to be born in the twenties, where wilderness was untamed and fiction was wide open. I knew there must…
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The Last Book I Loved: Mating
Dealing in questions rather than answers, Mating has a way of making things seem possible for both its characters and its readers—intellectual love included.
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“Call the Clock,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Nicole Walker
Call the Clock I was a little envious. I’d only ever had one and he— cat o’ hearts—he had nine. He traded them in every time they got broken.
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FUNNY WOMEN #33: What She Really Thinks About Sex
After more than two years of deliberation, the suggestions from thirteen expert groups that have been working on the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (used to diagnose recognized psychological disorders) are now available online.
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David Breithaupt: The Last Book I Loved, West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief
I generally shy away from books with Jesus in the title. Everyone deserves their own trip, as they used to say in the sixties, and Jesus was never really mine. Not that I dislike Jesus, but I really don’t want to…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #55
HP CUSTOMER SERVICE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing HP customer service.