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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Last week, Aubrey Nolan offered up illustrated book-gifting recommendations for children. This week, we’re turning our attention to the 18+ crowd. We’ve asked our editors to give us their favorite...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jenn Shapland about her debut book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books, February 2020), letting absences in a historical record speak for themselves,...
View ArticleEverything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle’s lyrical essay “I Remember, I Remember” reads like a slow, sweet missive, or like part of what the poet has described as the “lifelong sentence”—every word one’s ever uttered, invisibly...
View ArticleWhat We Eventually Forget: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory
During the month of July in 1971, poet Bernadette Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm film every day and kept a daily journal. The result was what Mayer calls an “emotional science project”: a conceptual,...
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Misery Loves Company: A Conversation with Sarah J. Sloat
As an erasure poet myself, I’m on the lookout for (okay, fully stalk) new releases in this poetic subgenre, which are few and far between. When I came across Sarah J. Sloat’s Hotel Almighty (an erasure...
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A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
In her 2019 review of Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe Is Made, Rumpus contributor and book reviewer Julie Marie Wade wrote: A review, after all, isn’t a book report (mostly summative) or an...
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What to Read When You’re Drawn to Rabbit Holes
In trying to come up with this list of books, I changed my mind at least six times. There were the obvious choices of “What to read when the world is on fire/gone mad/awaiting the second coming/trying...
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
Gabrielle Bates, I. S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch are three emerging poets who have transformed my writing life. Their work is also connected—by threads of hunger, loneliness, and reclamation. I am...
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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
NONFICTION Que sais-je? In a dream once, I traveled toward my mother on the back of red-brown horse, through towns and cityscapes and heavy night and gray fog and merciless winds. Geography was...
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Awake to the World: Talking with Tyler Barton
Tyler Barton’s short story collection Eternal Night at the Nature Museum, just released from Sarabande Books, crackles with unbridled energy as characters seek home in unlikely places: a demolition...
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