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Take Your Divagations Seriously: Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer

The Last Days . . . has nothing much to do with tennis or with Roger Federer, who appears sparingly in these pages . . . [nor is it] “intended to be a comprehensive study of last things, or of lastness generally.”

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National Poetry Month Day 7: Chaun Webster

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Morowa Yejidé

Morowa Yejidé discusses her new novel, CREATURES OF PASSAGE.

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Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway

Marnie Galloway discusses her award-winning comic IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS.

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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do

Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?

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Whisper Sweet Nothings

With every year you can hear a celebrity narrate Moby-Dick for $14.95, audiobook sales account for increasingly greater shares of publishing houses’ revenues. Listen up.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Idra Novey

Swati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women's writing and women's bodies, and much more.

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The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Spivack

Poet Kathleen Spivack discusses releasing her debut novel Unspeakable Things at age seventy-seven.

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The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Bauman

Bruce Bauman discusses his latest book, Broken Sleep, why rock isn’t dead (yet), how humor makes life bearable, and why we should reinstate the draft.

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The Animals Die: On Reading Joy Williams

It might be a moment anyone of us has already missed. For all we know, we’re dead right now. Maybe this is it.

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The Great American Typo

The Smithsonian attempts to hunt down its own white whale: why is Moby-Dick hyphenated in the title of the novel but unhyphenated in the text?

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Life with a Literary Middle Name

Yes, I thought when I was sixteen. That sounds about right. Over at the Toast, Mikaella Clements tells us the story of how she got her middle name: being escorted through…

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