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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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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection, PILGRIM BELL.

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Rumpus Original

Diner Boys

But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.

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The Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major

Clarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist's role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

Used to see lots of psychedelic princes and princesses on Haight Street. Not many these days. But here were hundreds of the turned on and tuned in, dressed like birds and peacocks in heat.

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The Rumpus Interview with Will Evans

Will Evans, Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing, talks about publishing translated works as well as the Texas and Dallas literary scene he wants to help grow.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner on his new book Gone with the Mind, pressuring the novel form, being a purist Dionysian, and artisanal pap smears.

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Moulin Rimbaud?

Poetry is one of the pillars of the town’s cultural policy. There’s a new museum in the old town of Charleville-Mézières, France dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud, one of the country’s…

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Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee

“In 1873, they reunited in Brussels, but it took only two days before Verlaine bought a gun and got drunk and shot Rimbaud in the wrist.” LA Times on famous…

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