The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Beth Alvarado
Beth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
...moreBeth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
...moreKapka Kassabova discusses her latest book, TO THE LAKE.
...moreWhat we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
...moreWe stood with the open-handed absence which finally allowed for a telling.
...moreA good man doesn’t leave someone to die in the desert, and when he uses God’s name, he does it to bless, not to kill.
...moreDespite its supernatural beginning, Everyone Knows You Go Home is grounded in the kind of gritty realism lived by every immigrant in this country.
...moreWilliam T. Vollmann, the author whose exhaustive research helps to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, and whose books tend to be measured by the pound, has a new book coming out titled Imperial. The 1300-page tome looks at the arid California-Mexico border, and its culture and people, from many angles. The New York […]
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