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Russian literature

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #162: Emma Winsor Wood and C. Dylan Bassett

  • Maria Anderson
  • January 24, 2019
“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

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 21, 2017
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…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck

  • Ani Kokobobo
  • February 23, 2017
Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Will Evans

  • Graham Oliver
  • August 24, 2016
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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Round-the-Clock Chekhov

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 13, 2015
More than five hundred people will participate in a global event to read the roughly fifty works by Russian author Anton Chekhov, reports Russia Beyond the Headlines. On September 25th, venues around…
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Preserving Dostoevsky’s Prose

  • Charley Locke
  • June 26, 2015
What’s one English word to sarcastically communicate Russian cosmopolitan refinement? How would you translate a page-long sentence from Tolstoy, or “the cacophonous competing voices of Dostoevsky”? Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard…
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Less Like a Communication

  • Roxie Pell
  • June 2, 2015
This poetry was a poetry meant to be read loudly, breathlessly, full-throttle, full of sonic energy and internal rhyme. It felt less like a communication from a speaker to a…
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The Stories of a Story-Hater

  • P.E. Garcia
  • March 23, 2015
“I hate literature,” wrote Varlam Shalamov in a 1965 letter. “I do not write memoirs; nor do I write short stories.” Despite his claim, Varlam Shalamov would become one of…
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Exploring the “Russian Soul”

  • Jake Slovis
  • December 2, 2014
For the New York Times, Francine Prose and Benjamin Moser share their experiences reading 19th century Russian literature. While Prose shows an appreciation for the timeless themes of Tolstoy and Gogol, Moser…
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Russian Novels for Rushing Muscovites

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 5, 2014
In addition to boasting one of the most beautiful subway systems in the world, Moscow commuters now stand to become the best-read. Per the Guardian, over 100 titles from authors…
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“The Czar and the Poet”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 22, 2013
When the people followed the Communists at the beginning of the twentieth century, they gave up Christ, but they found it impossible, as the revolutionary poets exhorted them, “to throw…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 16, 2010
Happy Sunday! I’m in upstate New York at my sister’s college graduation. She’s really smart, like Phi Beta Kappa smart. However, she’s insisting that I play drinking games with her,…
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