Why Fit In When You Can Stand Out?: Talking with Jason Mott
Jason Mott discusses his new novel, HELL OF A BOOK.
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Posts Tagged: Jeannine Hall Gailey
ENOUGH: How Many like Her?
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
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Angry Reminders: Lee Ann Roripaugh’s Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
Human beings like to make myths out of things we don’t understand.
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The Illusion of Wholeness: Sophie Collins’s Who is Mary Sue?
When reading this book, expect your notions of speaker—and even what a book of poetry is—to be challenged.
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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What to Read When the World Is Ending
Books to read in this fraught political moment.
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Blending Out: Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Despite its title, Oceanic is much more than a love letter to the ocean.
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Both Insider and Outsider: Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang
Barbie Chang is an intelligent, lively portrayal of the pressures on contemporary women (especially mothers), and a breathlessly entertaining read.
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ENOUGH: I Am Never the Same Girl Again
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Playing with Genre: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling
Whether you read it as poetry or memoir, this collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.
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Both Companion and Guide: Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Field Guide to the End of the World
I recommend you pull over now. Better yet, I recommend you call in sick and turn your car around. You’re going to want to read this book in one solitary burst…
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Marie Howe Is Magic: Reading Magdalene
Howe’s Magdalene is ambitious in its reach and strangely timely, as American society has swung to the right and, in the process, against the tide of equality for women.
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Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Dana Levin’s Banana Palace today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Halo by C. Dale Young
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews C. Dale Young’s The Halo today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Amazing Disappearing Woman Writer
To refuse to disappear at mid-life—I am forty-two as of the writing of this essay—is perhaps the best rebellion a woman poet can make to the literary world and to the world at large.
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Caroline Smith writes about parenthood and television in the Saturday Essay. The wildly popular AMC drama Mad Men provides a thematic frame for Smith’s own foray into marriage and motherhood. She even teaches a college writing course on the television show, allowing her to analyze the “messiness” of Mad Men and real life. Then, Amy Uyematsu’s […]
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The Yellow Door by Amy Uyematsu
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door today in Rumpus Poetry.
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First, Brandon Hicks compares a nostalgic past with a scary future in “When I Was A Kid… A Personal Essay.” Then, in the Saturday Essay, Josie Pickens tries to reconcile the real Bill Cosby with the one we’ve come to admire from The Cosby Show and Fat Albert. These classic programs tried to give Americans a vision […]
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Oracle by Cate Marvin
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Cate Marvin’s Oracle today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 16: “Post-Apocalypse (With HGTV Magazine)” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Post-Apocalypse (with HGTV Magazine)
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First, sacrifice is the key to artistic growth in Grant Snider’s “Creative Processor.” And in the Saturday Essay, Amanda Miska realizes she is making the object of her love into a “myth,” into “the version of the story that [she] wanted to believe.” Framed by the constant presence of social media, Miska analyzes the motivation behind […]
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The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Mary McMyne reviews Jeannine Hall Gailey’s The Robot Scientist’s Daughter today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The New Testament by Jericho Brown
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Jericho Brown’s The New Testament today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Cliches are something every writer has to deal with at some point. This weekend, Steve Edwards acknowledges the cliché and comes to something of a reckoning. Edwards declares: That’s how the heart works—it doesn’t give a shit about what it’s supposed to feel, it just feels. Using the context of a failed marriage, Edwards shows […]
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The Pedestrians by Rachel Zucker
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Rachel Zucker’s the pedestrians today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Unexplained Fevers by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Sarah Sarai reviews Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Unexplained Fevers today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Search For a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Marjorie Manwaring’s Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Roleplay” by Juliana Gray
In Juliana Gray’s Roleplay, though the book has its share of formal verse – triolets, sonnets, etc – don’t be surprised if you run into a zombie or two. Roleplay contains, besides a zombie love poem, a series of poems based on Hitchcock films, an imagined dating profile by an aging Nancy Drew, and a […]
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