Prague
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Into Unbound Space: Talking with Seth Rogoff
Seth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Chicago’s bookstores, bracing against the looming arrival of a physical Amazon store, are stronger than ever. Check out this roundup of local indie stores. Fišer bookstore, a Prague institution since the 1930s, is closing. Korea’s oldest bookstore closed fourteen years ago, but…
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Visiting Kafka
Over at the New York Times, David Farley writes about Prague and its connections to Kafka, from the 36-foot high Kafka head made of forty-two rotating chrome plates to the various buildings that lay claim to his residence—all the hotspots for the…
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The Rumpus Three-Way Interview: An Incomplete Catharsis
Carmiel Banasky, Alexandra Kleeman, and Matthew Salesses on their new novels, writing from a place of tension, and how our writing changes as we do.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Wake the Goddamn World
On a darkened street in Prague, an older man assaults a younger woman, while an American teacher–safe in her apartment above–watches from the window. More than a decade later, Megan Stielstra remembers, interrogating accountability, time and language.