Features & Reviews
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #62: Julian Tepper
Upon publication of his first novel, Balls, author Julian Tepper received pointed advice from one Philip Roth: quit. What the elder statesman, on the verge of his own retirement, was trying to say is that the writing life is “just…
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The Monster’s Daughter by Michelle Pretorius
Jordan Bray reviews The Monster’s Daughter by Michelle Pretorius today in Rumpus Books.
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Led from a Distance by Harry Newman
Bill Wunder reviews Harry Newman’s Led from a Distance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
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This Week in Books: The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit…
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Desert Boys by Chris McCormick
Natalie Rowland reviews Desert Boys by Chris McCormick today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus interview with Jeremy P. Bushnell
Jeremy P. Bushnell discusses his new novel, The Insides, themes of consent, and designing a post-apocalyptic board game.
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Blood Flower by Pamela Uschuk
Christian Anton Gerard reviews Pam Uschuk’s Blood Flower today in Rumpus Poetry.
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i be but i ain’t by Aziza Barnes
Heather Hughes reviews Aziza Barnes’s i be but i ain’t today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
