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John Updike: Writers Reflect

  • Jason Roberts
  • February 2, 2009
The Rumpus asked writers to share their thoughts on the work and legacy of John Updike, who died this week at the age of 76.
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Things I’ve Been Silent About

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • February 2, 2009
Azar Nafisi‘s first book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicles an underground book club reading Western Classics under the oppressive Islamic government of Tehran (it subsequently became a favorite book-club book…
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Terrifying Nixon-Era Children’s Books

  • Julie Greicius
  • February 2, 2009
Ever since shoving Bush into his helicopter with an expletive and fantasizing about letting go of Cheney’s wheelchair at the top of a long, steep hill, I find I have…
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A Review of Deb Olin Unferth’s Vacation

  • Laura van den Berg
  • February 2, 2009
Obsession distorts the lens through which we view the world; things that once seemed unfathomable become terrifically and terrifyingly plausible.
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The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Sean Greer

  • Juliet Linderman
  • February 2, 2009
I've heard other novelists say this, which makes me feel like I'm not crazy, that the problem with every novel is finding the key to it, finding the way in.
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Jorge Luis Borges: “Reading has to be a happiness”

  • Jesse Nathan
  • February 1, 2009
“For me death is a hope, the irrational certitude of being abolished, erased and forgotten,” says Borges in this 1984 interview conducted by Professor of Philosophy Tomas Abraham, translated here…
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An OG Titan of Industry and the Future of the American City

  • Juliet Litman
  • January 31, 2009
Before Dick Fuld oversaw the implosion of Lehman Brothers, and before John Thain had to apologize for accepting an outrageous bonus from Merrill Lynch, there was Frank Woolworth. The gloss and…
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Complex Innovative Literary Prize

  • Elissa Bassist
  • January 31, 2009
The Warwick Prize for Writing is an “innovative new literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial…
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Why You Should Not Be Afraid to Read “Little Women”

  • Anne Trubek
  • January 31, 2009
If anyone could be said to have really written in a garret, alone and oblivious, it is Louisa May Alcott.
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The Universal Threat of Loneliness

  • Elissa Bassist
  • January 29, 2009
“The End of Solitude” by William Deresiewicz begins with the question, “What does the contemporary self want?” He answers after two sentences: “Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming…
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On Teaching Poetry to Women in Prison

  • Robin Romm
  • January 29, 2009
I was nineteen.  Prison seemed sexy and foreign—as did most forbidden things. 
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The Rumpus Interview with Jack Pendarvis

  • Thomas Seely
  • January 29, 2009
I didn't so much experiment as flounder around. But experiment is a nice word for it!
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