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THE LONELY VOICE #7, The Rumpus Short Story Column: My Son the Murderer
In honor of Governor Mark Sanford and Michael Jackson’s (bless his Indiana soul) favorite holiday, today’s Lonely Voice is devoted to dads, interesting, fascinating, All-American dads…Rewind to last...
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Chris Huntington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brothers Karamazov
We were in the “international bookstore” of Xiamen, China, which is really a Chinese junk and bookstore but has half a dozen shelves of English books (such as Gossip Girl and 7 Habits of Highly...
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons #8: Jack Gantos
In 1971, Jack Gantos, a twenty-year-old, good-kid criminal, dodged the Feds at the Chelsea Hotel. They knew of his role in the smuggling of 2,000 pounds of hashish into New York City, on a boat he’d...
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Torday
I read The Sensualist in a night. This in and of itself is not a great achievement, because The Sensualist is a novella. What’s amazing is that the next day, I started it again. To say The Sensualist...
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The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Bauman
Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a Pynchon-esque shaggy dog of a novel spanning nearly eight decades of American history, from World War II to the not-too-distant future. Centered around the exploits of...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #25: In a Daze, ‘Cause I Found God
I’m an atheist who often carries crystal rosary beads and a relic of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. My grandparents, Mary and Gus, bought them both at the Vatican where they had traveled to see Pope Paul...
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
I have to admit that when The Rumpus asked me if I wanted to interview Jay Baron Nicorvo about his debut novel The Standard Grand (St. Martin’s Press), I thought the synopsis sounded a bit wild: a...
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Take Your Divagations Seriously: Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer
What’s your book about? Much of popular literary discourse begins and ends with that question. Moby-Dick is about a whale hunt, and War and Peace is about Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. These...
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