Features & Reviews
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Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed
Mark Blatte’s hip-hop-crime novel brings a touch of philosophy to New York’s mean streets
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Batman, Robin, and…Dostoevsky?
Drawn and Quarterly is one of the premier anthology publications in the indie comics world. Although the caliber of work in the quarterly is almost always superb, the crossover appeal and sheer cleverness of their Crime & Punishment adaptation are,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Kipnis
Laura Kipnis began her career as a visual artist but is best known for her writing on a range of provocative topics, including pornography, and adultery.
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Role Models
Those who came before us — Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Flannery O’Connor — “illuminat[ed] precedents for women writers,” and became our heroines, our literary guides, our inspirations and paragons. Carlin Romano follows such icons in A Good Role Model…
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A New Babel
These poems by Kazim Ali are gorgeous, each phrase a breath of prayer, the words presented as humbling offerings, each one a deep bow.
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Paterson’s Great Falls, inspiration for writers, named national park
President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday naming the Great Falls on the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J. a national historic park. The 77-foot falls, site of early American industrial plants, has also inspired American writers. The great 20th century…
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Small-Town Gothic
Keith Lee Morris’s new novel exposes the hidden desires and fears of the local darts champions.
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Kevin Sampsell: The Last Book I Loved, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City
I’d been hearing about Another Bullshit Night in Suck City since it came out a couple years ago, but late last year, after finishing my own memoir, I finally got around to reading it. I loved the shifting timelines, short…