Rumpus Originals
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The Unveiled Animal
Joshua Mohr’s second novel returns to the seedy side of San Francisco, where the addicted and the lost search for redemption.
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Lunch with Carson
On a chilly February afternoon in 1959, Carson McCullers, Marilyn Monroe and Isak Dinesen had lunch.
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10/40/70 #15: Raw Deal
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Raw Deal by Anthony Mann.
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Wait
Now in his seventh decade, C. K. Williams has published many books and won the big prizes, but the poems in Wait are fresh—he does not merely rely on old blueprints, but continues the struggles that have preoccupied him throughout…
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Talks with Teachers #1: Mutual Respect
“You have to prove your commitment to the students, but that commitment has to be to making them a better student not to changing them into something you think they should be.”
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One Art
Michael Sledge’s novel The More I Owe You imagines Elizabeth Bishop’s life, and love, in Brazil.
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Why I Chose What I Chose, Ceiling of Sticks
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Advisory Board member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks to be the group’s first selection. If anyone were to accuse contemporary American poetry of being insular, self-involved and provincial, these…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #44
EWOKS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Ewoks.
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The Work of the Day, Which is Slaughtering
In Joshua Cohen’s hyperreal world of kitsch, the Sabbath becomes law, Auschwitz becomes Whateverwitz, and the world’s last Jew is on the run.