Halloween
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Literary Puns, Halloween-Style
If you like Timothy Leo Taranto’s literary puns here on the Rumpus, you’ll also enjoy these Halloween-themed literary puns over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Written and illustrated by Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel, they turn your favorite authors into scary monsters,…
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Halloween Costumes for Book Nerds
Need a last-minute, low-hassle outfit for trick-or-treating? This list of literary Halloween costumes (with pictures, natch) has some great ideas—just grab a “Hello, My Name Is” sticker and write “Ishmael,” and you’re good to go. There are also some fantastic examples…
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A Spooktacular Halloween Reading List
It’s Halloween, and the Hairpin’s Jia Tolentino has put together a frightfully good list of spooky books to read by the light of the jack-o-lantern. This list has it all: “futurist nightmare, teenage romance with a Bataille-esque hint of sexual…
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“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we’re pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams’s “This is just to say” by David Hernandez.
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The 50 Scariest Books Of All Time!
Just in time for Halloween, Flavorwire has compiled a list of the 50 scariest books of all time (with cover art)! The list includes the requisite additions of Stephen King and Richard Matheson, but also literary masters like Margaret Atwood…
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Make it a Ted Wilson Halloween
Not available in any store is the year’s most exciting costume: the Ted Wilson! Take this mask, pair it with a sweater, dress shirt, and khakis, and you’ll be the world’s premiere reviewer of the world. (Not really. You’ll still…
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Simple Madness or Something Else?
Today is the day for ghost stories. At The New Yorker, Brad Leithauser analyzes Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” focusing on the distinction still being puzzled out by readers and scholars alike: were the ghosts real, or was…
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Halloween is Waiting
Every Halloween, the ghost of my 11 year-old self haunts me. She’s in the candy aisle at Rite Aid gorging on fun-size Twix bars. She’s wrapping candy corn lights around her neck. She’s trying on a vampire costume grinning through…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 10/31
This week in New York KGB goes Nonfiction, Small Press Extravaganza at WORD, Eric Puchner shares his Model Home, One Story at powerHouse, Eileen Myles reads from A Poets Novel, and we celebrate Halloween with Anya Sapozhnikova, an extreme After-Life…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake
Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
“I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working.”