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A Close Reading By Way of Looking at the First Seven Lines of A Poem and Walt Whitman

  • Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • September 10, 2010
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi delves into Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the club’s September selection, by writing the author a letter:
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It Begins to Look Like Courtesy

  • Barbara Berman
  • September 10, 2010
Carl Phillips is a masterful maker of sweet visual dances that are never cloying.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Tao Lin

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  • September 10, 2010
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Tao Lin about Richard Yates, writing what you want to read, and when it’s okay to steal a book:
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #50: Strange Proposal

  • Sugar
  • September 9, 2010
Snakes. Hummingbirds. Perhaps a polar bear.
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Triumph and Oblivion

  • Barbara J. King
  • September 9, 2010
José Saramago’s posthumous novel The Elephant’s Journey is an exploration of the self—and a gift to his readers.
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PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL:
Many Happy Returns

  • Ian Huebert
  • September 9, 2010
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Shane Book

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  • September 9, 2010
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Shane Book about his poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks.
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SMALL POTATOES:
The Problem Is

  • Paul Madonna
  • September 8, 2010
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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TRUTH SERUM: Kool-Aid (Part 5)

  • Jon Adams
  • September 8, 2010
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THE BINS:
Jack

  • Lucas Adams
  • September 8, 2010
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Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman

  • Tobias Carroll
  • September 8, 2010
Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more…
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A MODERN READER #5: Fetishizing the Pastoral

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • September 7, 2010
Is it possible to pinpoint when a trend begins? When a seminal book, or movie, or article penetrates the mainstream? Really it never is a single specimen, but rather a…
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