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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • January 18, 2016
In the Saturday Essay, Lisa Borders describes moving to a small community in southern New Jersey at thirteen. It’s the sort of place where everyone knows the difference between “good” and…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

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  • December 28, 2015
First, Brandon Hicks brings us an illustrated retrospective of the works of Franklin “Boobs & Butt” Barber. Then, in the Saturday Rumpus Review of Todd Haynes’s movie Carol, Sean Donovan considers how…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • June 15, 2015
First, in the Saturday Essay, Alana Hauser remembers the evil spirit from David Lynch’s eerie TV drama, Twin Peaks. The “parasitic” spirit, named Bob, is “a frightening reflection on the pervasive reality…
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My Life as a Mermaid by Jen Grow

  • Heather Partington
  • June 14, 2015
Heather Partington reviews Jen Grow's new collection My Life as a Mermaid.
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum

  • Heather Partington
  • April 19, 2015
Daum’s collection is at its best when it’s being the most transparent and unapologetic.
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: From Here by Jen Michalski

  • Heather Partington
  • October 5, 2014
Many authors’ stories blend together across a collection; they struggle to convey a unique voice in each piece. Not so with Jen Michalski’s From Here. Though her characters share common…
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The Sunday Rumpus Reviews: Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter and Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer

  • Heather Partington
  • May 25, 2014
Fridays at Enrico’s (Counterpoint) Don’t write about writing. That gets said a lot. But like any absolute about what not to do, it’s only true until someone does it well.…
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Beside Myself by Ashley Farmer

  • Heather Partington
  • March 30, 2014
There are many reasons that an author would want to put a book–an actual physical object–into a reader’s hands, rather than just communicating data. Some books rebuff the notion that…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Women in Bed by Jessica Keener

  • Heather Partington
  • December 22, 2013
What sends us to our beds? Desire, sure. Sex. But also sickness. Sleep. Loneliness and healing. Jessica Keener’s Women in Bed is a collection of nine stories about women at…
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: If I’d Known You Were Coming by Kate Milliken

  • Heather Partington
  • October 20, 2013
What we do to each other in moments breeds a kind of emotional genealogy that can’t be undone. The characters in Kate Milliken’s debut collection, If I’d Known You Were…
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