The Rumpus Book Club
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Pacazo by Roy Kesey – Review
Josh Anastasia responds to January’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: Pacazo is a story about a man coming to terms with the murder of his wife and how to move on in the face of tragedy; the stories that we tell…
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Hinting at Meaning: Friday Book Club Round-Up
We’ve compiled links to footage of several interviews with Jim Shepard, whose You Think That’s Bad is our February Book Club pick. Truthdig has posted an excerpt of Andrew Foster Altschul‘s new novel Deus Ex Machina. The scene shows a…
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The Trick of Thinking Through Infinity: Book Club Round-Up
I remember/ the trick of thinking through infinity, a crowd of eyes/ against an asphalt wall, writes Timothy Donnelly in his poem “The Cloud Corporation.” If you haven’t had the chance to pore through his latest collection by the same…
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Interviews with Jim Shepard
The Rumpus Book Club’s February pick is You Think That’s Bad, a new collection of short stories by Jim Shepard. For the last decade, Shepard has been an open and agreeable interviewee. Here are a few Rumpus favorites: In…
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While Away the Hours: Book Club Round-Up
You can read notes from our book club discussion of Pacazo, Roy Kesey‘s new novel that reminded one reader of The Sound and the Fury, “with an unreliable narrator whose narrative goes back and forth in time.” If you’re in…
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The Wonders of the Universe: The Book Club Round Up
Poetry gets so ignored. A moment to appreciate the bad-ass poets of the Rumpus Poetry Club and some of their accolades this past year: Timothy Donnelly‘s Cloud Corporation earned a spot among “The Year’s Best Poetry” according to NPR (also…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her collection Lucky Fish.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Andrew Foster Altschul
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Andrew Foster Altschul about Deus Ex Machina, Reality TV, the loss of truth, and what it’s like to visit a porn set in the name of research.
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Book Club Round-Up
“San Francisco is the best place in the country to be a writer,” says author Andrew Altschul in a profile by Publisher’s Weekly about his new book Deux Ex Machina. Considering Altschul’s novel takes on the morally vapid world of…
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“Reality, Really”
Publishers Weekly profiles Rumpus Books section editor Andrew Foster Altschul, who is also the author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club pick, Deus Ex Machina.
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Early Thoughts on Deus Ex Machina
Rumpus Book Club member Jen George Burt on Deus Ex Machina. ** I think Deus Ex Machina is a modern greek tragedy – a creation myth of the new social contract. Deus Ex Machina is Latin for “god out of…
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Deus Ex Machina so far
Rumpus Book Club member Joseph M. Owens responds to this month’s book club selection, Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul. ** I always like to get my overall impressions of a book out of the way at the beginning…