Dinaburg’s Cake
A short story from Doug Dorst’s latest collection, The Surf Guru, our Rumpus Book Club pick for July.
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The Rumpus Poetry Club
Join today to receive the first Rumpus Poetry Club pick: Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks.
FUNNY WOMEN #29: Rules for Emailing Your Instructor
RHET1002 Students, It has come to my attention that many of you are unaware of my policy on email etiquette. Please take a moment to review the following guidelines to better facilitate…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #46
THE NAME LARRY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the name Larry.
THE BLURB #18: The Long Haul
Though I have doubted my talent, I’ve never doubted my conviction that this was the path I had to be on. Writing is like my Siamese twin: freakish, alive, weighty, uncanny. Were we to be separated, I doubt that I could survive it.
Citrus County Hits New York, Texas is All About Doug Dorst, and Tao Lin Challenges his Readers to a Dual…er, Contest: The One Rumpus, One Book Round-Up
New this week, The Rumpus presents a smattering of Book Club related news, including highlights of past, present, and future books in our queue. -You may have already caught Daniel…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #45: Thwack, Thwack, Thwack
Give him a peek at whatever would make you slam the door shut if he walked in and caught you in front of the mirror.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #45
CSI: MIAMI: THE SOUNDTRACK ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing CSI: Miami: The Soundtrack.
Why I Deserve a Copy of Rick Moody’s The Four Fingers of Death or My Second Love Affair With The Endless Novel
“All you book sluts are the same,” says Nick’s mother as I reveal that I too am an English major. This comes as we sit in his empty apartment, smoking…
Citrus County in the NYTBR
The Times has posted a wonderful review of John Brandon’s Citrus County (last month’s Rumpus Book Club pick) by Daniel Handler. Not enough John Brandon for you? Why not read…
Horn! Reviews The Surf Guru
Rumpus Book Club member and artist extraordinaire Kevin Thomas has reviewed this month’s book club selection, The Surf Guru. As usual, he did his review in the form of a…
The Last Book I Loved: The Zero
Not in recent memory have I read a book so enthralling, heartbreaking and with such deadpan humor. In what he calls his “9/12” novel, Jess Walter’s The Zero follows “hero cop”…