A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreA look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreRumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to celebrate mothers in all their complexity!
...moreThis is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreRumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreA selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreOur next Letter in the Mail is from Lydia Kiesling!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreCelebrate local writers and booksellers at Napa Valley Book Fest!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
...moreOver at the New Yorker, Lydia Kiesling writes about workplace fiction, typically seen as a male-centric dominion overseen by writers like Kafka, as written by women from Helen Phillips in The Beautiful Bureaucrat to Terry McMillan in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
...moreWhat if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers—like Coffee House Press, Nouvella, Copper Canyon, Dorothy, and City Lights—turn up at your local bookstore? Small Press Distribution, the tiny non-profit that makes sure your favorite indie books are stocked on store shelves, is holding a […]
...moreFor the New York Times, Lydia Kiesling reflects on Sara Majka’s debut collection, Cities I’ve Never Lived In: I assumed right away that I knew exactly what kind of book this would be: a book about arty people with complicated personal lives, who use the word “lover” and contemplate wintry landscapes from lonely trains… But Majka brings […]
...moreI never recoiled, in that first season, to hear the nice people on the bus say “beautiful baby,” to us in reverent tones. It’s a thanksgiving for safe passage, a prayer for all new defenseless things. But after a few months have passed … faint suggestions of the adult visage emerge. … And if you have […]
...moreThe joy of reading other people’s mail is a well-known, well-documented phenomenon. Inspired by the Sony data hack, Lydia Kiesling investigates the pleasure of looking at famous people’s personal correspondence over at The Millions.
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