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Kevin Hobson: The Last Book I Loved, Disgrace

The last book I loved was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Maybe “loved” isn’t the right word. “Loved” implies affection, fealty, romance and adoration. Coetzee’s Booker-Prize winning masterpiece affected me profoundly,…

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“Why don’t you dance with her?”

In the Guardian, novelist Ewan Morrison — whose newest novel is called Ménage — tosses out a list of literary ménages à trois, leading off with the Hemingway erotic novel…

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The Hooping Book: An Interview

The Rumpus interviews co-author Ariane Conrad about her controversial new sex manual…er, “revolutionary fitness program.”

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The Last Book I Loved: Honored Guest

One of my favorite books is the story-collection Honored Guest (2004) by Joy Williams.

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BEA Redux: Why the Show Must be Refashioned

With BookExpo America at a comfortable distance for reflection, it’s a good time to take a look at “Random BEA Thoughts,” Chad W. Post’s five-part essay on the need for…

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AP to Distribute Nonprofit Journalism- Brief Rumpus Interviews with the Participants

Sy Hersh would be proud: the Associated Press announced last Saturday that it will distribute watchdog and investigative journalism from four leading nonprofit organizations to its 1,500 member newspapers. The…

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Rebecca Steinitz: The Last Book I Loved, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

The last book I loved was Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey. I hadn’t loved a book in a while, but I thought I might love this one…

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Beacon Press to Republish Out-of-print MLK Books

Beacon Press has come to an agreement with the heirs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to republish four out-of-print books by the clergyman and civil rights leader, including “Strength…

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A Badass Biker Poet: Thom Gunn

Gunn’s work is imminently teachable in the form of Selected Poems, but it is derived from a world that now no longer exists: the Metaphysical poets drawn through the intermingling…

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Novelist disappears into illness, addiction

Kaye Gibbons, author of the 1987 debut best-seller Ellen Foster and several subsequent novels, is the subject of an Associated Press profile published in several newspapers and Sunday book sections…

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The Window of Possessive Titles

One of the new window displays at Red Hill. My first contribution: the window of Possessive titles, a trend I can’t stop ranting about. Especially with novels. But still, an…

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Typing Fast and Sitting Still

Blogging and stillness seem to be contradictory activities: I, along with many others, think of blogging as the relentless and hasty documentation of modern life on the go, news-in-brief for…

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