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Notable New York, This Week 10/19-10/25

This week, Chinua Achebe speaks, n+1 in conversation with Reihan Salam and Ross Douthat, Jonathan Lethem reads, composer/drummer Bobby Previte with Psychedelic Furs’ Knox Chandler, photographer Jeff Wall presents more…

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The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray is his own best nightmare. It took the modern Scottish bard twenty-five years to finish Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), his fat, strangely…

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Marilyn Nelson on Fortune’s Bones

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem is the poet Marilyn Nelson’s rendering of a really horrific true story about a slave owner in Connecticut who dissected the slave Fortune’s bones and…

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Junot Diaz on the Virtues of Being Stubborn

Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer for my favorite book of the last few years The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has written a pretty inspiring tale of frustration…

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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

Good morning, world. This week, the blogs are full of fun. Many of them had wondrous posts having to do with lovable, humorous, classic sci-fi authors like Vonnegut and Bradbury…

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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

It’s fall! The air is crisp, the leaves are falling, and I can’t seem to leave my house.

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Made Flesh” by Craig Arnold

I met the poet Craig Arnold only once. It was late February or early March of this year.

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Ken Krimstein: The Last Book I Loved, The Leopard

Loved? Big word. I’ve liked a lot of books. But loved? And then, what was the last one I loved? I’m not sure I’ve ‘loved’ more than three books in…

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Chronic City

Happy day, happy day!! Jonathan Lethem, one of my personal favorites, has a new novel out! It’s called Chronic City, and is, according to Lethem, “the best thing I’ve done.”…

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Drew Toal: The Last Book I Loved, I am Not Sidney Poitier

My only previous exposure to Percival Everett had been his book American Desert, which I had liked but not loved. So it was with middling expectations that I picked up…

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Erick Lyle’s Secret History Of The City

If you live in San Francisco long enough, you start to wonder: “Where the hell can I go at 3 a.m. which isn’t home or a laundromat or a massage…

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The Rumpus Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

My boyfriend insisted I read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men when we started dating. “It will help you understand the way men think!” he exclaimed. Secrets of those bearing a…

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