The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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Posts Tagged: Russia
Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”
Music has haunted me my whole life.
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Borders and Boundaries: Talking with Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
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Closing the Loop: Sophia Shalmiyev’s Mother Winter
I am mother. I am child. I am mother. The overlapping, hard-won truth—victim either way, saved either way.
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Unspeakable Mothers: Talking with Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #162: Emma Winsor Wood and C. Dylan Bassett
“The miracle, in Kharms, is a kind of rupture within the physical structure of the world.”
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Revolution Was Coming: A Conversation with Rabeah Ghaffari
Rabeah Ghaffari discusses her debut novel, TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Moscow at Midnight
As if he had just made a decision, Max said, “Drop me at Red Square.”
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What to Read When You’re in Russia
Sally McGrane, author of the debut novel Moscow at Midnight, shares a reading list!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Whole World Is Desert
This is what I want him to think of me. The girl poised to surf a wave under the heaviness of the full moon, the ocean around her radiant with light.
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TORCH: Goga
She was brave, coming to the station that day. It was still a time when people seen associating with the “traitors” could have had trouble from the KGB.
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Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov
His story is more than just a story about space, but also a story about history and how it moves. How time and space bend, burn, warp, and ignore.
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of […]
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A massive bookstore, The Book Garden, has opened in Iran’s capital city, Tehran. The Huffington Post takes a look back at the Strand’s ninety years of successful bookselling in New York City. A Russian bookstore is helping customers learn Chinese.
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The Storming Bohemian #34: Descent into the Underworld
The last time I punked the muse, I wrote of the summer solstice, a meditation into the heart of the sun. My goal was to leave behind the ever-more-depressing news cycle, and touch some place deep down where hope resides. We live in the Sun, I concluded. I envisioned a home where we could all […]
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just awareness of […]
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 13): “Letter to Simic from Boulder”
“Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
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On Making Wishes
It is true that I’m talking to a photo, but I’m not crazy. Neither am I a durochka. Fools are oblivious, at least those from my childhood fairy tales. I, on the other hand, am perfectly aware of the problem.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Man Without a Face
The ‘how’ of this story is fascinating, but the ‘what’ is too sad to think about: the methodical dismantling of Russian democracy.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
You’ll never believe this amazing sales technique! A bookstore is making clickbait headlines from classic novel plots. Bustle highlights some unconventional bookstores around the world. April 29 is Independent Bookstore Day and a Seattle area store is issuing a challenge to readers: visit 19 participating stores get your bookstore passport stamped.
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Looking for Russia in America
Everyone around us is speaking Russian, and I feel like we are in Russia, the old one, before the wall came down. For a moment, I even feel like I belong.
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