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Madness Rack and Honey

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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion

  • Patrycja Humienik
  • May 27, 2021
With Gabrielle Bates, I.S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch.
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What to Read When You’re Drawn to Rabbit Holes

  • Tiffany Cates
  • January 22, 2021
Tiffany Cates shares a reading list to celebrate M-THEORY.
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What We Eventually Forget: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory

  • Natalie Dunn
  • August 19, 2020
I surprised myself by reading Memory in an afternoon.
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide

  • The Rumpus
  • November 22, 2019
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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The Brain Wants What It Wants: Talking with Elisa Gabbert

  • Tyler Barton
  • July 5, 2019
Elisa Gabbert discusses her newest book, THE WORD PRETTY.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • October 10, 2017
Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf, finding community in poetry, books on craft, and mining the supernatural for poems.
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Eight Meditations about Mary Ruefle

  • Jeffrey Zuckerman
  • November 2, 2016
“You haven’t even begun,” she admonishes the younger version of ourselves. “You must pause first, the way one must always pause before a great spirit, if only to take a good breath.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Gabbert

  • Mensah Demary
  • January 6, 2016
Author Elisa Gabbert talks about her books, The Self Unstable and The French Exit, diversity, publishing, whiteness, and writing in the Internet Age.
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Lectures I Will Never Give

  • Mary Ruefle
  • March 14, 2013
My take on it is, we should be suspicious of everything that IS called a masterpiece.
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