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The Rumpus Interview with Alex Gilvarry

Part manifesto, part immigrant love story, part satire, part tragedy, Gilvarry’s debut novel is as moving as it is full of barely controlled anger, a tension that makes this well-written novel eminently readable.

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A New Silence Pushes Lexicon to the Brink

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Amazon, Coming to a Bookstore Near You?

You know Amazon? Our tax-evading (can someone please send them “The Throwaways”?), anti-union redefining, sweat-shop aspiring overlord. Remember how they tried to enlist us all in their war on local…

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Repaired Circuits

“If we can find birds on the pages of books, and gods within concrete, it does not seem fantastic to encounter our parents inside of their pots and patios.” At…

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Horn! Reviews

HORN! REVIEWS: Treasure Island!!! Kevin Thomas reviews the December Rumpus Book Club selection, Treasure Island!!!, Rumpus-Comics style.

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An Angel Pricked With Breathing Holes

Goldbarth still infuses his poems with an old-fashioned, childlike wonder at the marvels of our world, along with a bemused chuckle at the ways in which we so obviously fall…

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Micropress Managing

Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay details the ins and outs of starting a micropress based on the lessons she’s learned starting Tiny Hardcore Press. “You have to be prepared to hustle.…

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Candid Convo with Edmund White

Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it…

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Sitting In

Will Boast’s debut story collection, Power Ballads, is tied together by a compelling and evolving drummer named Tim, who will stay with you long after you finish the book.

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Leanna Moxley: The Last Book (of Poetry) I Loved, The Cow

I’ve been told that it’s harder to make friends once you are an adult because in order to be close to someone you have to be vulnerable. I was told…

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The Last Book I Loved: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

It’s not easy to explain David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, especially to a co-worker or a parent, or your wife or your wife’s friend. First you have…

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You Simply Die of Want

The poems are themselves stealthy, hiding but then eventually revealing themselves to the writers. Or the stealth writers, both Seaton and Ace autonomous and authentic somewhere in that collaborative voice.

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