Blogs
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #14: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Jeska Dzwigalski
This interview with Jessica (Jeska) Dzwigalski was conducted at 11:00am PST via GMail chat on June 19.
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The Candidate In Bloom
A short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, our Rumpus Book Club pick for July.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #5: Patrick Maier
I live on Bomarc Lane, which is located in Satellite Beach on Florida’s Space Coast and is about two miles away from Patrick Air Force Base. The street is named after the Bomarc missile, the only surface to air missile…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #13: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian
In Rochester, New York, my best friend Brian returns from a mission to fix an errant Xerox brand copier, the company that employs him as a technician. I sit in the offices of the L Magazine in DUMBO, as an…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #4: Betsy Birdsall
I live on 1.5 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains in a house that was built in the 1920s out of local stone. Most of the original buildings in the area are made out of the same stone, from the…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #12: Joen Madonna in Conversation with Cherry Crawley (Her Dead Mother)
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC by older over-bearing parents. She married the first man she…
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #4
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Just a quick post today. Such a vigorous discussion about the book as a whole has been going on at our previous post…
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FUNNY WOMEN #27: An Author Answers Her Fan Mail
That’s what we authors are always working for, that personal connection with the reader. It’s what makes all the unpaid hours, mostly spent blogging for a book deal, worthwhile.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #3: Andréa Ford
I live on 13th Street in apartment #13. The superstitious address came with a discounted rent. My roommate is a high school English teacher, so our bookshelves are stacked with multiple copies of classics like The Color Purple and The Elements of…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #11: Asha Galindo in Conversation with Josh Madden
I used this project as an opportunity to send some questions to one of my favorite people, Josh Madden. Josh lives in New York City and besides DJing, styling, writing, and hosting a weekly Internet radio show, he’s a positive,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #41
SANTA CLAUS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Santa Claus.
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The Last Book I Loved: Dating Jesus
I keenly remember the day my Grandmother died. My parents picked me up early from afterschool care and before I could ask why, my Mother said “We’re going to your Grandfather’s house.” I asked, “Don’t you mean Grandmommy’s house?” My…