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The Cost of Living

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Two Books for the Frozen Sea: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra

  • Laura Joyce-Hubbard
  • October 25, 2021
Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rob Roberge

  • Daniel J. Cecil
  • March 4, 2016
Rob Roberge talks about his new memoir, Liar, the differences between writing fiction and writing memoir, and why every narrator is an unreliable narrator.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Crazy

  • Rob Roberge
  • June 15, 2014
"We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy...The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale."
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Cost of Living

  • Anna March
  • September 28, 2013
Anna March explains why THE COST OF LIVING by Rob Roberge is the last book she loved.
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

  • Seth Fischer
  • March 7, 2010
Just so you know, Sunday is a good day to catch up with what Rumpus Books has been up to this week. 
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The Cost of Living

  • Padma Viswanathan
  • March 1, 2010
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master.
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