New York City
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“The Dean of the Clerks”
If the Strand is a palace for books, then Ben McFall is king—of its fiction section, at least. A New York Times profile of McFall discusses his history with, knowledge of, and love for the legendary bookstore: “It seems like a…
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The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens
Late summer 2005 and everything’s under water. The news warns us that New York City could be the next New Orleans—flooded subways, ten thousand shattered windows.
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The Last City I Loved: New York
I liked the place; I liked the idea of the place, was in a fortune cookie I once ate while living in New York.
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The Lightning Came Without Rain
Nina Schuyler reviews Lightning People by Christopher Bollen today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne
I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live above. We had dinner a few months ago, where I…
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The Intimates
Ralph Sassone’s first novel explores the devastating emotional craters of first love, and the bumpy, baffling relations between the generations.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy
When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina Randazzo tells great stories that span decades but her most…
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Walt Whitman’s Watering Hole: Pfaff’s Cellar, NYC
Whitman became a regular at Pfaff’s after getting fired from the Brooklyn Daily Times in 1859. The years before the Civil War were a decadent period where Whitman played the bon vivant, finding friends and lovers among the New York…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
“I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working.”
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You Caught Me
Tao Lin’s characters are constantly connected, yet physically detached. The technology they live and breathe often seems less mechanical than its users.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #13: On Loops
These lines depend on your having a working knowledge of the New York City suburbs.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #19
I will remind you that you were not born into this world to suffer. Nobody is, actually.