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The Art of Being an Undergraduate
Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is not actually a baseball novel; it’s a college novel, a great college novel.
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Erasing The Room
The hallway outside my room in Indiana was narrow, well lit, and tiled in every direction. Most nights, I was terrified to enter it.
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Your Notes, Your Small Pebbles
Arlene Kim’s book details a crisis of the spirit: moving from country to country, the spirit still needs the family for support, but also needs itself to remain strong and resilient. In these poems, it is the family and the…
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The Week Social Media Broke My Heart
Do you still remember the Internet of last week, just another barrage of all-over-the-place political and cultural events in which millions of people watched, reacted and interacted online?
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The Rumpus Interview with Pulitzer Prize Nominee Jonathan Dee
Google tells me there are many Jonathan Dees. One is an “authority” on practical astrology, color therapy and Feng Shui for the garden.
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The Lightning Came Without Rain
Nina Schuyler reviews Lightning People by Christopher Bollen today in Rumpus Books.
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All Over Coffee #552 Collaboration with Andrew Sean Greer
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Andrew Sean Greer. …more
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Poet or Storyteller?
Tom Waits on Tom Waits, a comprehensive collection of interviews and encounters spanning nearly forty years, is essential reading for any Tom Waits fan.
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The Rumpus Interview Without Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. is a comedian with balding, red hair. He has a television show that I’ve seen a few times and I enjoyed. I don’t know what his initials stand for or why his show is called Louie and not…
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The Rumpus Interview with Hot Head Show
As the opening band left the stage, before the house lights had lifted,
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Cool Reconnaissance of the Cursive M
Weather, for all of its pyrotechnics, is a tender book, artfully charting the landscapes these poems inhabit.