The Last Book I Loved: Krabat
1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Women in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Amy Letter reviews Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Interview with Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jane Rosenberg LaForge discusses her new book An Unsuitable Princess, being a New York writer from L.A., and how women get short shrift in fairy tales.
A Table That Goes On For Miles by Stefania Heim
Sean Singer reviews Stefanie Heim's A Table That Goes On For Miles today in Rumpus Poetry.
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others
Anisse Gross reviews Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Sharpton & 639 Others today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
David Bowie, Sisyphus, the Filipino diaspora, and Canada's most prestigious anthology of poetry.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jeff Parker
"The book became the story of Igor, as a metaphor for Russia, in crisis. While Igor is not ... some kind of Putin-era everyman, he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place."
Saint Friend by Carl Adamshick
Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick's Saint Friend today in Rumpus Poetry.
Once in the West by Christian Wiman
Caitlin MacKenzie reviews Christian Wiman's Once in the West today in Rumpus Poetry.