What to Read When You Want Story Collections about Working Lives
Jenny Bhatt shares a reading list to celebrate EACH OF US KILLERS.
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Join NOW!Jenny Bhatt shares a reading list to celebrate EACH OF US KILLERS.
...moreLeah Hampton discusses her debut collection, F*CKFACE AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreCreation begets death which begets more creation.
...moreCarrie La Seur discusses her new novel, The Weight of an Infinite Sky, standing up for what you know is right, and the writers who inspire her.
...moreWith impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
...moreJack Driscoll discusses The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot, “the impermanence of everything,” and how he chooses his characters’ names.
...moreLife’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.
...moreIt’s just a coincidence that I’ll be teaching the Wendell Berry poem “Enriching the Earth” tomorrow, a poem which ends with the lines “And so what was heaviest / and most mute is at last raised up into song,” but I couldn’t help but think of Berry’s sentiment about the body being of use after […]
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