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John Irving

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What to Read When You Want to Be Swept up by a Good Story

  • Jon Sealy
  • January 8, 2021
Jon Sealy shares a reading list to celebrate THE MERCIFUL.
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Grateful Maniacs: A Conversation with Dawn Davies

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • October 30, 2020
Dawn Davies discusses her debut memoir, MOTHERS OF SPARTA.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar

  • Tessa Torgeson
  • March 10, 2020
Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #122: Nathan Hill

  • Jon Kaleugher
  • February 8, 2018
"Write what you want to write, he said, and let other people deal with taxonomies."
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What to Read When Your Workplace Is Full of Drama

  • The Rumpus
  • June 9, 2017
In honor of the World's Worst Boss, we've put together a list of books full of workplace drama for you to read while we wait to see if we can get that orange guy fired.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #25: In a Daze, ‘Cause I Found God

  • Anna March
  • August 31, 2016
I’m an atheist who often carries crystal rosary beads and a relic of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. My grandparents, Mary and Gus, bought them both at the Vatican where they…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jensen Beach

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 15, 2016
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jensen Beach about his short story collection Swallowed by the Cold, suburbia in Sweden, quiet racism, and writing a series of connected short stories.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #21: John Irving

  • Anna March
  • March 2, 2016
And that is how I feel about John Irving novels. That they gave me everything.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #8: Abortion: My Body, My Choice

  • Anna March
  • November 4, 2015
“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Stepfatherhood

  • Sharon Harrigan
  • June 20, 2015
“He was my real dad,” she says. “I just happened to have two.”
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • October 26, 2009
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at…
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Paterson’s Great Falls, inspiration for writers, named national park

  • Mark Pritchard
  • April 3, 2009
President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday naming the Great Falls on the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J. a national historic park. The 77-foot falls, site of early American industrial…
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