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Welcome to Rumpus Books

  • Andrew Altschul
  • March 14, 2009
At The Rumpus, we believe that a healthy literary culture is one which embraces writing of all kinds, by authors of all stripes – young and old, established and emerging, traditional and experimental, writing from the margins or from (or about) the heart of mainstream culture, published by “major” houses or by smaller presses.
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The Last Book I Loved: In A Lonely Place

  • Jack Pendarvis
  • March 13, 2009
The book I am reading and loving right now is In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. I have known and loved the Humphrey Bogart movie based on the…
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FADE TO ORANGE: The Theory of Receptivity and Some Thoughts on Ethan Hawke’s Face

  • Michelle Orange
  • March 13, 2009
Call it the Theory of Receptivity. It’s the idea, often stated by young people and applied as a dismissive accusation to even marginally older people, that one’s taste in music,…
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The Last Book I Loved: Away

  • Lorelei Lee
  • March 12, 2009
I fall in love with books all the time.  I remember periods of my life this way – like “what’s-his-name left me when I was reading Mrs. Dalloway” or “I…
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Tinkers, by Paul Harding

  • James Scott
  • March 10, 2009
Tinkers is a novel steeped in, and obsessed with, minutiae. Whether describing the inner workings of a clock, the network of ducts and wires that runs through a home, or…
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The Last Book I Loved: Rodinsky’s Room

  • JMT
  • March 10, 2009
In 1969, a lonesome amateur scholar, David Rodinsky, disappeared without trace from his caretaker’s garret above the Princelet Street Synagogue in Jewish East London. His room, unsealed a decade later,…
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The Last Book I Loved: Stop-Time

  • Michelle Orange
  • March 9, 2009
A few times over a life, you find a book that inspires a physical kind of love: you can’t be far from it, stroke it absently for reassurance, take it…
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BAD MOMMY BLOG: Six Reasons Why The Bad Mommy Will Never Be A Good Socialite

  • Kaui Hemmings
  • March 9, 2009
1. Saturday night party/silent auction for a school. Daniel Kim was there, looking around. My husband goes, “Hey, are you lost?” 2. One of the items up for bid was to…
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The Last Book I Loved: Atmospheric Disturbances

  • Andrew Altschul
  • March 8, 2009
Galchen keeps us wound tight with anxiety, desperately waiting for some ray of hope for a man with a badly damaged mind and heart.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • March 8, 2009
Interesting conversation going on about a piece in the latest Poetry. Start here at Samizdat, then find further discussion at A Compulsive Reader, Exoskeleton (multiple posts–click around), and back to…
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“I am lonely. Truly, bone-chillingly, ceaselessly lonely.”

  • Sugar
  • March 7, 2009
Dear Sugar, I am lonely. Truly, bone-chillingly, ceaselessly lonely. I just moved to a new city, and I’m worried no one would take time to identify the body if I…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Centaur

  • Karan Mahajan
  • March 7, 2009
I read The Centaur by John Updike out of funereal obligation, and had given up on it twice before, but this time put my misgivings to rest and plowed through…
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