The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
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Posts Tagged: Steinbeck
Follow Your Nose: A Conversation with Daniel Gumbiner
Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel, THE BOATBUILDER.
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Pete Ross takes huge issue with the infiltration of content marketers and voracious “personal brand” builders at Medium and elsewhere. His point is clear: writing is more than posturing to sell yourself as a writer: All you’re trying to do is get a dopamine response from people, in turn getting a dopamine response yourself through […]
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Used-Car Salesman
I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to me.
...moreYou Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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Literary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
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