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God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler

  • Rebecca Kelley
  • August 6, 2013
Reading God Is Disappointed in You, I began to question the wisdom of letting violent prisoners spend any time at all in their cells reading the real Bible. And should we really leave copies in hotel drawers, where innocent children could find them? This thing is bloody.
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Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder

  • Brynn Downing
  • January 18, 2013
In Amy Beeder’s poetry, we are surrounded by the refuse and remains of the past: memories and photos of lost generations, the bones and fur of animals used to adorn…
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A Lifetime of Literature

  • Pat Johnson
  • October 30, 2012
Joe Queenan reads books. Lots of books. In fact, he surrounds himself with them (1,340 lay about his house to be exact). Queenan reads at least four hours a day…
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No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer

  • Nina Schuyler
  • June 5, 2012
Nina Schuyler reviews No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer.
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Tom Lutz on the Missing Generation of Journalists

  • Sam Riley
  • August 8, 2011
Tom Lutz’s recent essay for the LA Review of Books discusses the missing generation of journalists, the layoffs that have forced out some of the greatest book reviewers from their…
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Who Gets to Write the Review?

  • Sam Riley
  • July 28, 2011
“The book review page is an odd cultural territory, often inhabited by such hybrid creatures — unlike their contemporaries in other disciplines, where the lines between critic and artist are…
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The Impersonal Book Review

  • Sam Riley
  • July 11, 2011
Macy Halford writes on the book review, and our inclinations towards immersing ourselves in the opinions of our friends and trusted personalities. But alas, we can’t really know someone through…
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Falling in Love with Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

  • Brian Evenson
  • December 1, 2010
The novel has a progression and a movement forward, though not exactly a plot. Things change, things happen, people make choices, and by the end things are different.
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Book Club Member John Brown reviews The Instructions

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • October 13, 2010
The Instructions is this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection. Published by McSweeney’s the book is 1,024 pages. John Brown was probably the first member of the book club to finish…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

  • Michael Berger
  • September 27, 2009
This week The Rumpus brings you essays, an interview, a blurb and a review or two from good people like Michelle Orange and Josh Bearman and other special luminaries.
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Discovering Georges Simenon

  • Michael Berger
  • June 28, 2009
Maybe because I’m one-quarter Belgian, or so my parents claim, I tend to go out of my way to discover famous Belgians. I’m half-kidding about that but I do admit…
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The Sunday Book Review Supplement

  • Michael Berger
  • June 21, 2009
Now that it’s finally Sunday, it’s time to read a new book. Perhaps you’ve noticed how Sunday parks and bars are full of  blissed-out readers and lovers of the written…
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