The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty discusses her debut memoir, Tango Lessons, how the book found its current format, and writing a memoir at a young age.
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The Narrator-Guide: A Conversation with Sharon Harrigan
Sharon Harrigan discusses her memoir, Playing with Dynamite, writing through the gaps in memory, and how the book has changed real-life relationships.
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What to Read When Everyone Is Celebrating Dads
Whether you are celebrating your father or cursing his name this Father’s Day, here’s a list of very good books about fathers from writers we love.
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Controlled Burns: Meadowland Take My Hand by Pamela Hughes
It’s old news that there’s poetry in decomposition, but welcome news that Jersey has such an astutely musical young voice.
...moreThe President’s Summer in Letters
Check out President Obama’s reading list for summer on the Vineyard, by Sarah Begley in TIME. Books mentioned include the memoirs H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, and William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Might the President be considering picking up his own pen again?
...moreDoes Your Writing Sound Like Writing?
Over at the Smart Set, Elisa Gabbert discusses whether or not a work can ever be overwritten.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
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 “bad” families. This dynamic reminds Borders of Steven Avery, the embattled subject of the popular Netflix documentary series, Making A Murderer, in turn, Avery reminds […]
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Wilberforce by H.S. Cross and H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Heather Partington analyzes two very different books published in 2015 that examine the effects of grief and of all-boys British boarding schools.
...moreOn Birds in the Wild
In a hauntingly poignant review of Helen Macdonald’s lovely H Is for Hawk, the Los Angeles Review of Books’s Dinah Lenney writes about her own experience of loss and the turning toward the natural world: In grief, what I found: birds reassure. Birds as representatives of a universe that will go on with or without us. […]
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Joseph Olshan reviews H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald today in Rumpus Books.
...moreGrief Shatters Narratives
At Salon, Helen Macdonald talks about the unexpected success of her new memoir H is for Hawk, writing through grief, and her book’s unconventional mix of memoir, nature writing, and fiction: As the book progresses, all those different styles of writing crash up against each other. I think grief shatters narratives, and that’s what I […]
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