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Each month we mail Book Club, Poetry Book Club, and Combo Book Club subscribers handpicked books chosen just for Rumpus readers by our staff!
September's Book Club pick is HYSTERICAL by Elissa Bassist, and in honor of her Dear Sugar letter (from 2010!) where Cheryl Strayed advised her to WRITE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER, we're gifting mugs to new Book Club & Combo Book Club subscribers who sign up by Aug. 15.
In Hysterical, writer (and Rumpus Funny Women column editor!) Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women in this medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Bassist had what millions of American women had: pain that didn’t make sense to doctors, a body that didn’t make sense to science, a psyche that didn’t make sense to mankind. But then an acupuncturist suggested some of her physical pain could be caged fury finding expression, and that treating her voice would treat the problem. It did. Hysterical is a memoir of a voice lost and found, and a primer on new ways to think about a woman’s voice, where it’s being squashed and where it needs amplification. Bassist breaks her own silences and calls on others to do the same—to unmute their voice, listen to it above all others, and use it again without regret.
Mug offer applies to new Book Club and Combo Book Club (prose + poetry) subscribers. Email hello@therumpus.net after you sign up and let us know whether you'd prefer the "travel" OR “ceramic" option, and we'll mail it to your US address (or a friend's) in August. Books ship in early Sept!
Also, stay tuned as we're planning our 1st ever hybrid Book Club event with Elissa in NYC this fall. BOOK CLUB IRL!!!! Members will receive invites in September. Learn more about our Book Clubs here.
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