A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreA look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
...moreMolly Wizenberg discusses her new memoir, THE FIXED STARS.
...moreBilly-Ray Belcourt discusses his new book, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
...more“I found that the tap seemed to open when I accessed deep emotion and memory.”
...moreRumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!
...moreMary South discusses her debut story collection, YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...moreGreenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...moreBooks releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
...moreLiterary events in and around Chicago this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreA selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...morePlace is context in part, but it is not context in summation.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreRyan Ruby talks about his debut novel The Zero and the One, the challenges of pacing and plot, and the fun of inventing a book of philosophy for the novel.
...moreSaturday 2/25: Christian Hawkey and Himanshu Suri join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Emily Brandt and Ali Power join the SOLO reading series. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/26: Nicole Steinberg celebrates the release of Glass Actress with Niina Pollari, Sarah Jean Grimm, and Esther Lin. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 4 p.m., […]
...moreBelle Boggs discusses The Art of Waiting about navigating through the difficulties of conception and fertility treatment.
...moreJonathan Van Ness discusses his podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, fierceness, curiosity, and hairstyles.
...moreGarrard Conley, author of the new memoir Boy Erased, discusses growing up in the deep South, mothers, writing for change, and political delusions.
...moreThe woman looked at me when she finished reading, smiling, expecting me to compliment her English. But I couldn’t speak, moved beyond words by a sense of homecoming in this place so far from home. Over at Travel + Leisure, writer Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You, recalls a fortuitous meeting with an […]
...moreChristopher Frizzelle shares a dazzling review of Garth Greenwell’s debut novel, What Belongs to You, praising its ferocity and intense exploration of homosexuality: These “little theaters of heat,” these packets of desire or panic or imminence, these doublings-down of doubt and upswellings of confidence—these concentrations of feeling are Greenwell’s subject. The novel is explicitly set in Bulgaria, […]
...moreI’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the harsh wind and freezing rain waiting to get in to a Hillary Clinton rally in an overheated high school gym in Cedar Rapids. Watching them […]
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his debut novel, What Belongs to You, crossing boundaries, language as defense, and the queer tradition of novel writing that blurs boundaries between fiction and essay and autobiography.
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