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The Brothers Karamazov

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Take Your Divagations Seriously: Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer

  • Vineet Gill
  • December 13, 2022
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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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo

  • Beverly Parayno
  • August 21, 2017
Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #25: In a Daze, ‘Cause I Found God

  • Anna March
  • August 31, 2016
I’m an atheist who often carries crystal rosary beads and a relic of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. My grandparents, Mary and Gus, bought them both at the Vatican where they…
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The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Bauman

  • Seth Blake
  • February 17, 2016
Bruce Bauman discusses his latest book, Broken Sleep, why rock isn’t dead (yet), how humor makes life bearable, and why we should reinstate the draft.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Torday

  • James Scott
  • July 1, 2015
Dan Torday talks about his novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, the role of fear in fiction, the fabrication of facts in a memoir, and about being “constitutionally unoffendable.”
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Jack Gantos

  • Cullen Thomas
  • June 1, 2015
Jack Gantos discusses the sense of “delusional invincibility” he had in 1970s New York that led him to prison—and then on to a career as an award-winning children’s book author.
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Chris Huntington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brothers Karamazov

  • Chris Huntington
  • December 28, 2011
We were in the “international bookstore” of Xiamen, China, which is really a Chinese junk and bookstore but has half a dozen shelves of English books (such as Gossip Girl and 7 Habits…
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THE LONELY VOICE #7, The Rumpus Short Story Column: My Son the Murderer

  • Peter Orner
  • June 30, 2009
In honor of Governor Mark Sanford and Michael Jackson’s (bless his Indiana soul) favorite holiday, today’s Lonely Voice is devoted to dads, interesting, fascinating, All-American dads…
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