RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: GARDEN by Gabrielle Bates
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s January selection, JUDAS GOAT by Gabrielle Bates forthcoming from Tin House Books on January 24, 2023
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Flop, Turn, River”
“You should only bluff if you are prepared for the life it brings you,” my dad said. “You bluff, then you can’t go back.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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What to Read When You Want to Be Inspired by Latin American Resistance
Mark Eisner shares a reading list to celebrate RESISTENCIA: POEMS OF PROTEST AND REVOLUTION.
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The moment presented itself at dusk the following day.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”
Ada followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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Owning the Narrative: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes
Megan Fernandes discusses her new collection of poetry, GOOD BOYS.
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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lisbon, the Truncated City”
Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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A Space for Magnanimity: Talking with E. J. Koh
E. J. Koh discusses her debut memoir, THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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What We’re Reading in January!
Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in January!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jeannie Vanasco
Jeannie Vanasco discusses her new memoir, THINGS WE DIDN’T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
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What We’re Reading in September!
Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in September!
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Writing and Making: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS.
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Divergences from History: A Conversation with K Chess
K Chess discusses her debut novel, FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED.
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New-Old, Old-New: Erica Dawson’s When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Dawson plays with many tropes—light and dark, the spiritual vs. the corporeal—while questioning the everyday myths that surround us.
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The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder
Last Sext captures a youthful, hard, myth-informed, sleep deprived, aroused, spiritually searching, self-loathing worldview embraced by many of the young women in our lives.
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Chalk it up to a week where Twitter just felt like too much. Chalk it up to good ol’ nostalgia for the feel of a hefty book in your hands. Or maybe, just chalk it up to an aligning of stars that placed nine exceptional writers under the same roof. If you happen to have […]
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