Where I Write #9: A Cabin on the Lakefront
I stopped counting when I reached eighteen moves. That was a few moves ago. I am very good at packing my life into boxes.
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In This Light
In This Light, a collection of Melanie Rae Thon’s short stories, shows the writer’s shifts in the last twenty years, while reminding us of her powerful, haunting storytelling.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #87
THE RAPTURE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rapture.
The Rumpus Interview with Noah Cicero
Noah Cicero is the author of The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003), The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006), Treatise (A-Head Publishing, 2008), and The…
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Deborah Baker
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Deborah Baker about her new book, The Convert.
The Patron Saint of Bad Marriages and Atomic Bombs in Peace Time
Reese’s poems…often bless the patience and attention of the reader by not demanding it.
The Rumpus Interview with John Sayles
John Sayles is a force of nature, a do-it-yourself renaissance man—director, actor, screenwriter, script doctor, novelist.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #73: I’m Standing Right Next to You
In this very special Rumpus interview, Lidia Yuknavitch interviews our beloved Sugar.
Embassytown
China Miéville’s latest genre-bending book, Embassytown, unites science fiction and heady wordplay in a universe literally constituted by language.
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Steve Willis
A heavy-metal-obsessed Puerto Rican 12-year-old. A Dartmouth professor of biology and science-fiction writer. A party girl and print designer from Birmingham, Alabama. What do these people have in common?
The Dark Mystery of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” Letters
One of the enduring mysteries of American literature is a series of three letters drafted by Emily Dickinson to someone she called “Master.” There is no evidence that he letters—written…
Romanticism
The poems in April Bernard’s Romanticism feel more complete, somehow, for the fact that they each align their focus on objects which, on multiple readings, still seem to have no…