Interviews & Reviews
Maureen N. McLane interviewed about her latest poetry collection, What You Want.
"The book is interested in an array of borderline states, the pleasures and dangers of that openness, the terrors that verge on the sublime when you reckon with the sea."
Kassia Oset reviews Augusto Higa Oshiro’s The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu.
"Though his main character is swept up in the death drive, Oshiro’s language makes Katzuo’s every weary breath feel anxiously, pulsatingly alive."
Cristina García interviewed about new novel, Vanishing Maps.
"There’s the intimacy and distortions of one’s own memory, sensorially. You can use all your senses and you can call that up. That’s kind of ours, we own that. And yet I still think there are opportunities to research and figure out things that we didn’t know when we were little."
Robert Manaster reviews Lara Egger’s How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It.
"Egger has compiled a worthwhile collection through her playful breakdown of overused, misheard, or misunderstood language into her own expressive language—especially over desire—and more pervasively through her poetic leaps of connection via her compressed, layered, associative style and her extended metaphors." |
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Sketch Book Reviews: Kateri Kramer reviews Mrs. S by K. Patrick:
"Mrs. S asks readers to consider the ways characters inhabit bodies, how we inhabit our our bodies. We are given the opportunity to inspect sexuality and sensuality, love and longing, and what happens in the heat drenched days of summer."
What To Read When: Remembering Milan Kundera written and curated by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn:
"You’ve probably heard that Milan Kundera passed away earlier this week, and while we don’t have an interview to un-paywall this installment of What to Read When is a small tribute to the man, who was a prolific writer." |
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For our September 2023 - August 2024 selections (and possibly beyond!), we’ll focus on great new poetry collections AND hear from the indie publishers behind the books with our new Indie x Indie Poetry Book Club format!
Join by midnight August 15th, to receive our September Poetry Book Club pick The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao and join our subsciber-only conversation with the author, her editor, Jeff Shotts at Graywolf Press, and Rumpus Poetry Editor, Brian Spears.
As a subscriber, we'll send you a copy of this book the first week of September and you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + the author's editor + a Rumpus Editor and fellow book club members. Subscribers are encouraged to join in the chat with their questions before and during the conversations. These will take place on the Rumpus' Crowdcast channel and will remain available to subscribers for 1 month after they take place. |
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| Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back!
Up next, author letters from . . .
August 1: Brian Turner author of Here, Bullet and two new poetry collections, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, forthcoming this fall from Alice James Books (subscribe by July 31)
August 15: Sequoia Nagamatsu author of How High We Go in the Dark, a national bestseller and New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (subscribe by August 14) |
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| Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held. We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
Essays open reading period: We're open for original essays June 2-August 1. Read this thread from our Essays Editor, Robbie Maakestad to learn more about what we're looking for.
Save the dates! Reading periods opening soon for:
Enough column (starting July 24), original Comics (starting Aug. 1), and original Fiction (Aug. 15)
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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