the Luminaries
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book
Rumpus editors share their favorite winter reads.
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Art & Anachronisms
In the New Statesman, Oliver Farry investigates the times we notice anachronisms in film, television, and literature—and why we care.
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Writer Reading Grants
Writers often find grants to help them write, but writers also need to read. The Luminaries author Eleanor Catton, last year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize, plans to set money aside to award grants to writers to allow them…
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Books Grow Longer
Several recent high profile books, like Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries or Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, are hefty tomes. As it turns out, these outliers are part of a larger trend toward longer books. Jeremy Anderberg, writing at BookRiot, researched popular…