Features & Reviews
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisabeth Egan
Elisabeth Egan discusses her debut novel, A Window Opens, life as a book lover, workplace jargon, and the question we should ask ourselves in place of can we “have it all”.
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The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York
But when my loneliness feels as vast—and capable of drowning me—as the sea, this book about self-destruction comforts me more than any self-help.
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Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott
Amy Pence reviews Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott today in Rumpus Books.
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War Narratives #4: Meet the Civilians
Each character achieves independence in his own way, but independence winds up looking a lot like loneliness.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #9: We Shall Overcome?
Last year on our way to and from getting married in New Orleans, my now husband and I went on a civil rights pilgrimage. We went to Montgomery and Birmingham; we went to Selma. We drove the Pettus Bridge there…
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Alliance and Condemnation by Claudio Rodriguez
Barbara Berman reviews Claudio Rodriguez’s Alliance and Condemnation, translated by Philip Silver, today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rick Moody
Rick Moody talks about the newly collected writings of the elusive Reginald Edward Morse, Hotels of North America, and why fiction in general ought to lie more.
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My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers by Fiona Helmsley
Trevor E. McGill reviews My Body Would Be the Kindest of Strangers by Fiona Helmsley today in Rumpus Books.
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Barefoot to Avalon by David Payne
Moira Crone reviews Barefoot to Avalon by David Payne today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli talks about her new novel, The Story of My Teeth, working with a translator to publish her books in English, and how writing in weekly installments changed her process.
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I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta talks about her debut novel, Under the Udala Trees, her upcoming appearance at Portland’s Wordstock book festival, and LGBTQ rights in America and worldwide.