What to Read When You Want to Run Away from Your Life
Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
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Join NOW!Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
...moreElizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
...moreJack Gantos discusses the sense of “delusional invincibility” he had in 1970s New York that led him to prison—and then on to a career as an award-winning children’s book author.
...more“For years I was angry at myself for having run away with a man. Later, I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t that person anymore. Why couldn’t I find someone to give me an identity again?”
...moreGood morning my fellow Rumpusians, as Christmas steadily approaches and the panic to procure becomes almost reptilian, I can honestly say I’ve never handled so many one hundred dollar bills. Are there that many people out there with so much money?
...more“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his daily living, have a way of losing their meaning, and take on the qualities of decoration. What makes Istanbul worth while to the outsider is […]
...moreI’ve recently been in awe of the short stories of Paul Bowles, the American ex-pat novelist, composer, and translator who lived in Morocco and wrote The Sheltering Sky and who was basically Beat before the Beats. Besides maybe Flannery O’Connor and Poe, I can’t think of any other short stories that have so riveted me. […]
...moreThe love of reading and the love of books, while almost always coinciding are still, in essence two different things. If I loved to read as much as I loved books, for instance, then I wouldn’t own at least a hundred books which I haven’t read yet. But really you can’t have one without the […]
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