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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry By The Rumpus April 13th, 2018 Rumpus editors share favorite poetry collections as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month! ...more Tags: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Among the Monarchs, Amulet, Analicia Sotelo, Anne Carson, Aracelis Girmay, Autobiography of Red, beth bachmann, Black Aperture, Blood Dazzler, Blood Sparrows and Sparrows, Boneshepherds, CA Conrad, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Catherine Barnett, Cease, Cenzontle, Christine Garren, Citizen Illegal, Colette Arrand, Dana Levin, Dante Di Stefano, David Tomas Martinez, Derrick Austin, Diane Seuss, Dying in the Scarecrow’s Arms, Ecodeviance, Eduardo C. Corral, Eleni Sikelianos, Eugenia Leigh, Evie Shockley, Fatimah Asghar, Fludde, Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon, House A, I Love Artists, Idrissa Simmonds, If They Come for Us, In the Surgical Theatre, Incomplete Knowledge, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, Jack Gilbert, Jamila Woods, Jason Bayani, Jeanann Verlee, Jeffrey Harrison, Jeffrey McDaniel, jennifer s. cheng, Jericho Brown, Josè Olivarez, Juliana Spahr, Kimiko Hahn, Mad Honey Symposium, Mahogany L Browne, María Isabel Álvarez, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Matt Rasmussen, Matthew Olzmann, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mezzanines, Mindy Nettifee, Misrepresented People, Mitchell LH Douglas, molly mccully brown, My Emily Dickinson, Narrow Road to the Interior, National Poetry Month, Nin Andrews, Open Your Mouth Like a Bell, Patricia Smith, patrick rosal, Peter Mishler, Please, poetry, Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, Racing Hummingbirds, Refusing Heaven, Rookery, ross gay, Sally Wen Mao, Semiautomatic, Slow Lightning, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Susan Howe, Suzanne Parker, Terrance Hayes, The Black Maria, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, The California Poem, The Splinter Factory, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, TJ Jarrett, Traci Brimhall, Trouble the Water, viral, virgin, What to Read When, Why God Is a Woman, Zion
What to Read When You’re a Whiting Award Winner By The Rumpus April 6th, 2018 The 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway! ...more Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, Agnes Smedley, amy hempel, Anne Boyer, Antoinette Nwandu, Black Gay Man, Boy with Thorns, brontez purnell, chemistry, Collected Poems, cotton candy on a rainy day, crush, Daughter of Earth, Delicate Edible Birds, Diane di Prima, Esmé Weijun Wang, Feather on the Breath of God, Frederick Douglass, Garments Against Women, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami, Heads of the Colored People, home, lauren groff, lydia davis, Marilynne Robinson, My Bondage and My Freedom, myriam gurba, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Nathan Alan Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Painting Their Portraits in Winter, Patty Yumi Cottrell, reading recommendations, Revolutionary Letters, Richard Siken, Rickey Laurentiis, Robert Hayden, Robert Reid-Pharr, Shunryū Suzuki, Sigrid Nunez, since i laid my burden down, Tennessee Williams, The Border of Paradise, The Collected Schizophrenias, The End of the Story, Tumble Home, Weike Wang, What to Read When, Whiting Award, Whiting Awards, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind
What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History By The Rumpus March 30th, 2018 Rumpus editors select writing that speaks to women's history—past, present, and future. ...more Tags: Adrienne Rich, America's Women, audre lorde, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Barbara Jane Reyes, Bestiary, Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Carina Chocano, Charlotte Perkins, Deborah A. Miranda, Directed by Desire, Donika Kelly, Electric Arches, Elissa Washuta, Eve Ewing, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Gail Collins, Heart Berries, Hope in the Dark, In Praise of Difficult Women, Invocation to Daughters, Janet Campbell Hale, Jesmyn Ward, Julia Pierpont, June Jordan, Karen Karbo, Kate Harding, Katie Green, Katy Horan, Kindred, Lighter Than My Shadow, Literary Witches, Marge Piercy, Men We Reaped, michelle dean, Morgan Parker, My Body Is a Book of Rules, Nasty Women, Nella Larsen, Nicole Sealey, Octavia Butler, On Lies Secrets and Silence, Ordinary Beast, passing, reading recommendations, Rebecca Solnit, Rocket Fantastic, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, Sister Outsider, Svetlana Alexievich, Taisia Kitaiskaia, Terese Mailhot, The Little Book of Feminist Saints, The Moon is Always Female, The Unwomanly Face of War, The Yellow Wallpaper, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Together We Rise, What to Read When, Women's History Month, You Play the Girl
What to Read When You Want to Read about Feminist Saints By The Rumpus March 23rd, 2018 A list from Julia Pierpont to celebrate the release of The Little Book of Feminist Saints. ...more Tags: A Room Of One's Own, Anne Carson, audre lorde, Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Brenda Wineapple, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Gender Gap: Bella Abzug’s Guide to Political Power for American Women, Gloria Steinem, helen keller, If Not, Infinity Net, It's Up to the Women, Julia Pierpont, Manjit Thapp, Max Sherman, Maya Angelou, My Life on the Road, Nellie Bly, Pussy Riot, Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom, Sappho, Sholeh Wolpe, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, Sister Outsider, Ten Days in a Mad-House, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, The Feminine Mystique, The Little Book of Feminist Saints, The World I Live in & Optimism, Unbowed, virginia woolf, Wangari Maathai, What to Read When, White Heat, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Women's History Month, Yayoi Kusama
What to Read When You’re Hungry By Tabitha Blankenbiller February 23rd, 2018 Each [cookbook] is a ticket into an immersive opportunity for new dishes, new ingredients, new love. ...more Tags: Adele Yellin, Allegra McEvedy, Alternating Current Press, Barbara M. Walker, cookbooks, Dana McCauley, Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food, eating, Eats of Eden, Ellen Jackson, food, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, Kate McMillan, Kevin West, Last Dinner on the Titanic, Laurie Colwin, LEON: Ingredients and Recipes, Marcy Carriker Smothers, Nigella Lawson, One Pot of the Day, Portland Farmers Market Cookbook, Rick Archbold, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Tabitha Blankenbiller, The Baking Bible, The Grand Central Market Cookbook, The Little House Cookbook, What to Read When
What to Read When They Yell “Go Home!” By The Rumpus February 16th, 2018 A list from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan to celebrate the release of the forthcoming anthology Go Home!. ...more Tags: A Portrait of the Self as Nation, A Small Place, Alexander Chee, Amitava Kumar, Brain Fever, Chang-rae Lee, Coolie Woman, Esmé Weijun Wang, Feminist Press, Gaiutra Bahadur, Gina Apostol, Go Home!, Good Girls Marry Doctors, Gun Dealers Daughter, Hagar Poems, Harmless Like You, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, in the country, jamaica kincaid, Jason Koo, Jesmyn Ward, Karissa Chen, Kimiko Hahn, Lunch with a Bigot, Marilyn Chin, Mia Alvar, Mohja Kahf, More Than Mere Light, Nikesh Shukla, On Such a Full Sea, Phrasis, Piyali Bhattacharya, Ponti, Rajiv Mohabir, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Sharlene Teo, The Border of Paradise, The Cowherd's Son, The Fire This Time, The Good Immigrant, Wendy Xu, What to Read When
What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History By The Rumpus February 9th, 2018 Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history, past and present. ...more Tags: Airea D. Matthews, An American Marriage, Another Brooklyn, Aracelis Girmay, Ayana Mathis, ayiti, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, bell hooks, Big Machine, Black History Month, Black Peculiar, Blessing the Boats, Bone Black, Britt Bennett, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Citizen, Claudia Rankine, danielle evans, Electric Arches, erasure, Eve Ewing, Forest Primeval, Hanif Abdurraqib, Here Comes the Sun, Ijeoma Oluo, Incendiary Art, Incognegro, jacqueline woodson, James Baldwin, Jesmyn Ward, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Khadijah Queen, Lucille Clifton, marlon james, Mat Johnson, Men We Reaped, Morgan Jerkins, Morgan Parker, Native Son, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Nicole Sealey, Ordinary Beast, Patricia Smith, Percival Everett, Phillis Wheatley, richard wright, Robin Coste Lewis, ross gay, Roxane Gay, Simulacra, So You Want to Talk About Race, Starshine & Clay, Tayari Jones, The Black Maria, The Book of Night Women, The Fire Next Time, The Mothers, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, This Will Be My Undoing, Victor LaValle, Vievee Francis, Voyage of the Sable Venus, We Love You Charlie Freeman, What to Read When
What to Read When You’re Feeling like a Criminal By The Rumpus February 2nd, 2018 Rumpus editors share their favorite fiction, poetry, and nonfiction books that deal with crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system. ...more Tags: Adam Sternbergh, Alex Gilvarry, All Things Violent, An American Marriage, Ann Quin, apology, Attica Locke, Berg, Bluebird Bluebird, crime, crime and punishment, Danez Smith, David McDuff, Don't Call Us Dead, Donna Tartt, edwidge danticat, Etheridge Knight, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, Fuminori Nakamura, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Habeas Corpus, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Jennifer Pashley, Jill McDonough, Jon Pineda, Jung Yun, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Last Winter We Parted, Louise Erdrich, Michelle Alexander, Michelle McNamara, Mitchell Jackson, murder, Nikki Dolson, Nikolai Leskov, Poems from Prison, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Shahid Reads His Own Palm, Shelter, Shovel Ready, Simone John, Sujata Massey, Susan Perabo, Tayari Jones, Testify, The Dew Breaker, The Fall of Lisa Bellow, The New Jim Crow, The Residue Years, The Round House, The Scamp, The Secret History, The Widows of Malabar Hill, What to Read When
What to Read When You Want to Read Women on Home By The Rumpus January 26th, 2018 A list from Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters to celebrate the release of This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home. ...more Tags: 10 Mile Radius, Adrian Nicole Leblanc, alison bechdel, Carson Ellis, Cat Gwynn, celeste ng, Fun Home, home, Homegoing, Housekeeping, Hyperboreal, Jeannette Walls, Joan Kane, Julie Otsuka, Kelly McMasters, Little Fires Everywhere, Margot Kahn, Marilynne Robinson, Random Family, Sandra Cisneros, The Best We Could Do, The Buddha in the Attic, The Glass Castle, The House on Mango Street, Thi Bui, This Is the Place, What to Read When, women writers, Yaa Gyasi
What to Read When You Want Fire and Fury By The Rumpus January 19th, 2018 Rumpus editors share a list of books by writers of color and women that bring fire, fury, and sometimes, both. ...more Tags: Adrienne Maree Brown, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness, Asha Bandele, Boxers & Saints, Carolyn Forche, celeste ng, Citizen, Claudia Rankine, Dante Alighieri, Emergent Strategy, Ever Is a Long Time, Fire and Fury, Gene Luen Yang, Him Me Muhammad Ali, Inferno, James Baldwin, Jesmyn Ward, Kerry Howley, Little Fires Everywhere, Look, Marjane Satrapi, Mary Jo Bang, Michael Wolff, Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmitt Till to Trayvon Martin, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Persepolis, Randa Jarrar, resistance, Resistance Rebellion Life: 50 Poems Now, Shane McCrae, Solmaz Sharif, The Animal Too Big to Kill, The Fire Next Time, The Fire This Time, Thrown, W. Ralph Eubanks, What to Read When, When They Call You a Terrorist
What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book By The Rumpus January 12th, 2018 Rumpus editors share their favorite winter reads. ...more Tags: 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Alfred Lansing, Animals Strike Curious Poses, Anna Karenina, Boy Snow Bird, C.S. Lewis, Chase Twichell, Chronicles of Narnia, Cynthia Barnett, Donna Tartt, Eleanor Catton, Elena Passarello, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Eowyn Ivey, Eva Saulitis, Helen Oyeyemi, Hyperboreal, in cold blood, James Meek, Jensen Beach, Joan Naviyuk Kane, John McPhee, Juliana Spahr, Katharine Coles, Katy Didden, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Many Ways To Say It, Marie-Helene Bertino, Mat Johnson, Oranges, Overwinter, Pym, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Ratika Kapur, reading recommendations, Rene Denfeld, Swallowed by the Cold, That Winter the Wolf Came, The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica, The Child Finder, The Earth is Not Flat, The Glacier's Wake, The Left Hand of Darkness, the Luminaries, The People's Act of Love, The Secret History, The Snow Child, The Snow Watcher, tolstoy, Truman Capote, Ursula K. Le Guin, What to Read When
What to Read When You Want a Fresh Start By The Rumpus January 5th, 2018 In keeping with the spirit of the New Year holiday, we've put together a list of books that deal with new beginnings—and the unexpected twists and turns that come after. ...more Tags: A life in men, Adam Silvera, Bestiary, book recommendations, Breath Eyes Memory, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Chang-rae Lee, Cheryl Strayed, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Cristina Henriquez, Donika Kelly, edwidge danticat, Emily Wilson, Emma Straub, gillian flynn, Gina Frangello, Gish Jen, Gone Girl, Kate Atkinson, Kate Chopin, Kaveh Akbar, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, Let's Not Live on Earth, Life After Life, Melissa Febos, Miranda July, Mona in the Promised Land, More Happy Than Not, Native Speaker, reading recommendations, ross gay, Sarah Blake, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, The Awakening, The Book of Unknown Americans, the first bad man, The Leftovers, the odyssey, Tom Perrotta, What to Read When, Whip Smart, Wild
What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner By The Rumpus December 29th, 2017 While we can't promise that 2018 won't find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration. ...more Tags: A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise, Adrienne Celt, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Aja Gabel, Akwaeke Emezi, Alexander Chee, All You Can Ever Know, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, America Is Not the Heart, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, amy fusselman, An American Marriage, Analicia Sotelo, And Now We Have Everything, Anne Raeff, beth bachmann, book lists, Brood, Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, Cease, census, Choose Your Own Disaster, colin winnette, Dana Schwartz, Diane Seuss, Eats of Eden, Elaine Castillo, Eloisa Amezcua, Empty Set, Everyday People, Eye Level, Fady Joudah, Feel Free, florida, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Freshwater, From the Inside Quietly, Go Home!, Heart Berries, Hermoine Hoby, Homeplace, How to Be Safe, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Idiophone, Idra Novey, Ijeoma Oluo, Indictus, Invitation to a Bonfire, Jasmine Guillory, Jennifer Baker, Jenny Xie, Jesse Ball, John Lingan, Katia D. Ulysse, Kimiko Hahn, Laura Lippman, laura van den berg, lauren groff, leesa cross-smith, Leslie Jamison, Lincoln Michel, Litany for the Long Moment, Mallory Ortberg, marilyn robinson, Mary-Kim Arnold, Meaghan O’Connell, Meg Wolitzer, Meghan Flaherty, Melissa Broder, michelle dean, Morgan Jerkins, Mouths Don't Speak, nadxieli nieto, Natalie Eilbert, Neon in Daylight, Nicole Chung, Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture, Oceanic, Porochista Khakpour, R. O. Kwon, reading recommendations, Registers of Illuminated Villages, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Roxane Gay, Rumaan Alam, Sandra Allen, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shara Lessley, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, Sick: A Memoir, Sigrid Nunez, So You Want to Talk About Race, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Sunburn, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Tango Lessons, Tarfia Faizullah, Tayari Jones, Ted Scheinman, Terese Mailhot, Terrance Hayes, That Kind of Mother, The Ensemble, The Explosive Expert's Wife, The Female Persuasion, The Friend, The Incendiaries, The Job of the Wasp, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, The Pisces, The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath, The Second O of Sorrow, The Third Hotel, The Wedding Date, This Mournable Body, This Will Be My Undoing, Thomas Page McBee, Those Who Knew, Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, tom mcallister, Tracy K Smith, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, virgin, Wade in the Water, What are We Doing Here?, What to Read When, Whiskey & Ribbons, Winter Kept Us Warm, zadie smith
What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide By The Rumpus December 1st, 2017 Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves. ...more Tags: A Sense of the World, Abandon Me, Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want, Anne Carson, Arundhati Roy, Autobiography of Red, Blood Sparrows and Sparrows, Bluets, book recommendations, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, carmen maria machado, celeste ng, Chanukah, Chrissy Teigen, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, christmas, cravings, Danez Smith, Dear Friend from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Deb Perelman, Don't Call Us Dead, Electric Arches, elena ferrante, Eugenia Leigh, Eve Ewing, Florence in Ecstasy, Good Bones, Hala Alyan, Hanukkah, Harmless Like You, Her Body and Other Parties, Him Me Muhammed Ali, holiday gifts, holidays, hunger, Jason Roberts, Jenny Zhang, Jesmyn Ward, Jessie Chaffee, Jung Yun, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Kate Harding, Kaveh Akbar, Lisa Ko, Little Fires Everywhere, madness, Maggie Nelson, Maggie Smith, Megan Stielstra, Melissa Febos, Mike Scalise, Min Jin Lee, Morgan Parker, My Brilliant Friend, Nasty Women, Nature Poem, Neapolitan Novels, One Day We'll ALl Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Pachinko, Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy, Randa Jarrar, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Roxane Gay, Salt Fat Acid Heat, Salt Houses, Sam Sax, Samantha Irby, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Samin Nosrat, Scaachi Koul, Shelter, Sing Unburied Sing, Smitten Kitchen Every Day, Sour Heart, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, The Brand New Catastrophe, The Leavers, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Tommy Pico, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, We Love You Charlie Freeman, We Were Eight Years in Power, What to Read When, What We Lose, yiyun li, Zinzi Clemmons
What to Read When: A Holiday Gift Guide for Kids By The Rumpus November 17th, 2017 Rumpus editors recommend the best books to gift children, from new releases to classics they cherished through their own childhoods. ...more Tags: A Child of Books, A Different Pond, Adam Lehrhaupt, Angie Thomas, Anna Emilia Laitinen, Bao Phi, Breathe and Be, Brendan Wenzel, Chicken in Space, Christian Robinson, christmas, Claire Masurel, Dean Hale, edward gorey, eleanor & park, Elise Gravel, Elizabeth Verdick, Ellen Raskin, Eloise at Christmastime, Eric Litwin, Erika L. Sanchez, Everywhere Wonder, Extraordinary People, Ezra Jack Keats, Hanukkah, Hilary Knight, holiday gifts, holidays, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, If Found...Please Return to Elise Gravel, Joan Aiken, John Bellairs, Kady MacDonald Denton, Kate Coombs, Kay Thompson, Last Stop in Market Street, LeUyen Pham, Marc Rosenthal, Matt de la Peña, Matthew Swanson, Michael Hearst, Molly Knox Ostertag, Nina LaCour, Nova Ren Suma, Oliver Jeffers, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights, Rainbow Rowell, reading recommendations, Robbi Behr, Sam Winston, Shahar Kober, Shannon Hale, Small Walt, Steven Lenton, Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising, The Disenchantments, The Hate U Give, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Princess in Black, The Snowy Day, The Thankful Book, The Walls Around Us, The Westing Game, The Witch Boy, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, They All Saw a Cat, Todd Parr, Two Homes, What to Read When
What to Read When You Want to Read an “Uncomfortable” Book By Spencer Folkins November 10th, 2017 Authors whose works have been challenged or banned give recommendations on other "uncomfortable" books that will make you a better person for having read them. ...more Tags: 10000 Dresses, A Midwinter Break, A Time to Kill, Alain Deneault, Alice Walker, American Library Association, Andrew Aydin, Angie Thomas, banned books, beloved, Bernard MacLaverty, censorship, Charles Johnson, chris hedges, crank, Daughter of the Forrest, David France, Edward P. Jones, Einstein's Beach House, Ellen Hopkins, Emily Rosenblum, Empire of Illusions, growing, Harper Lee, Heather Has Two Mommies, How to Survive a Plague, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Imperial Canada Inc, In the Night Kitchen, It's Perfectly Normal, Jacob M. Appel, James Joyce, Janet Fitch, John Grisham, John Lewis, Juliet Marillier, Leslea Newman, Life is Funny, Love Comes Later, MARCH series, Marcus Ewert, Margo Lanagan, mariko tamaki, maurice sendak, Maya Angelou, Middle Passage, Mohana Rajakumar, Nate Powell, Nawal El Saadawi, No Choirboy, reading recommendations, Rex Ray, Robie H. Harris, Spencer Folkins, Susan Kuklin, Tender Morsels, the bluest eye, The Color Purple, The Hate U Give, The Known World, This One Summer, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, Ulysses, What to Read When, White Oleander, Woman at Point Zero
What to Read When You Want to Feel Thankful By The Rumpus November 3rd, 2017 Kick off the holiday season with a list of books that Rumpus editors are thankful for! ...more Tags: Abandon Me, Ada Limon, Alexandra Kleeman, An Elemental Thing, Anne Sexton, beryl markham, Bluets, Bright Dead Things, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Carolina Ebeid, Carson McCullers, Cathy Linh Che, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Dangerous Angels, Don't Call Us Dead, edwidge danticat, ee cummings, Elena Passarello, Eliot Weinberger, Emily Dickinson, Eula Biss, Forest Dark, FourYear-Old-Girl, Francesca Lia Block, Geek Love, Graham Greene, Harryette Mullen, hunger, Jeanette Winterson, jill lepore, Joan Didion, Juliana Spahr, Katherine Dunn, Kaveh Akbar, Ken Liu, Krik? Krak!, Leslie Jamison, Let Me Clear My Throat, Li-Young Lee, Louise Glück, Maggie Nelson, Mary Jo Bang, Meadowlands, Megan Stielstra, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Melissa Febos, Morgan Parker, Natalie Diaz, Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, nicole krauss, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong, reading recommendations, Rose, Roxane Gay, Sleeping with the Dictionary, Split, thankful, Thanksgiving, the balloonists, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, the empathy exams, The HEart is a lonely hunter, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, The Power and the Glory, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, thisconnectionofeveryonewithlungs, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Weetzie Bat, West with the Night, What to Read When, When My Brother Was An Aztec, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine
What to Read When It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month By Anna Leahy October 27th, 2017 A list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively. ...more Tags: anna leahy, audre lorde, biopsy, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, cancer, Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, death, Emperor of All Maladies, George Johnson, Icebound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, illness, Jerri Nielsen, Kelly Corrigan, Laura Holmes Hadad, mammogram, Maryanne Vollers, memoir, Miriam Engelberg, mortality, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Cancer Chronicles, The Cancer Journals, The Middle Place, This is Cancer, tumor, What to Read When
What to Read When It’s Been a Hell of a Year By Claire Vaye Watkins October 20th, 2017 Each of these books, in various ways, wound the crank on my empathy machine, and reminded me that telling a story can be a defiant act. ...more Tags: Camille Dungy, Claire Vaye Watkins, cory taylor, David Stein, Dying: A Memoir, Erin Stalcup, Every Living Species, Grow Your Own, Guidebook to Relative Strangers, HAIRDO, How to Survive a Summer, Jesmyn Ward, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Liz Craine, Micah Sherman, Molly Patterson, Nichole Graf, Nick White, Rachel B. Glaser, reading list, reading recommendations, rebellion, The Fire This Time, The Song Cave, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, What to Read When
What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape By The Rumpus October 13th, 2017 A list of memoirs, fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction that deal with rape culture and the many ways that is shapes our society and the women and men who live within it. ...more Tags: A Piece of Cake, Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich, Alice Walker, An Untamed State, Because I Remember Terror, book recommendations, carmen maria machado, Cupcake Brown, domestic violence, Donald Trump, Dorothy Allison, Elissa Washuta, Girls Like Us, Harvey Weinstein, Her Body and Other Parties, I'm So Fine, Jen Cross, Jennifer Whitaker, Judith Herman, Khadijah Queen, Landscape with Sex and Violence, Lauren Berry, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lynn Melnick, Maxine Hong Kingston, My Body Is a Book of Rules, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Rachel Lloyd, rape, Roxane Gay, sexual assault, sexual violence, Stephen Chbosky, Sue William Silverman, The Blue Hour, The Chronology of Water, The Color Purple, The Fact of a Body, The Lifting Dress, The Telling, The Woman Warrior, Trauma and Recovery, Trump, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Wendy C. Ortiz, What to Read When, Writing Ourselves Whole, Zoe Zolbrod
What to Read When You Are a Nasty Woman By The Rumpus October 6th, 2017 A list from Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay to celebrate the release of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. ...more Tags: Asking for It, blackout, Carina Chocano, Cheryl Strayed, Hillary Clinton, Hope in the Dark, Janet Mock, jessica valenti, Jill Filipovic, Kate Harding, Katha Pollitt, Nasty Women, One Day We'll ALl Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Outdated, Pro, Randa Jarrar, Rebecca Solnit, Saachi Koul, Sady Doyle, Samantha Irby, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Sarah Hepola, Sex Object, Surpassing Certainty, The H Spot, Tiny Beautiful Things, Trainwreck, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, What Happened, What to Read When, Who Do You Serve Who Do You Protect, You Me Mohammed Ali, You Play the Girl
What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother By The Rumpus September 29th, 2017 A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence). ...more Tags: A Life's Work, After Birth, Alice Anderson, alison bechdel, Ann Lamott, Are You My Mother, Asha Bandele, beloved, Blood Lyrics, Brenda Shaughnessy, Camille Dungy, Catherine Wagner, celeste ng, Dept. of Speculation, Desiree Cooper, Elisa Albert, Emily Rapp, Everything Is Flammable, Gabrielle Bell, Guidebook to Relative Strangers, Jennifer Givhan, Jenny Offill, Katie Ford, Know the Mother, Landscape with Headless Mama, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Little Fires Everywhere, Little Labors, Louise Erdrich, Maggie Nelson, Meghan O'Rourke, motherhood, mothers, Not for Mothers Only, Once, Operating Instructions, Our Andromeda, Rachel Cusk, Rachel Zucker, reading recommendations, Rebecca Wolff, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, rivka galchen, Silver Sparrow, Some Bright Morning I'll Fly Away, Tayari Jones, The Argonauts, The Blue Jay's Dance, The Still Point of the Turning World, The Woman Next Door, Toni Morrison, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, What to Read When, Yewande Omotoso
What to Read When It’s Time for Sports By The Rumpus September 22nd, 2017 Just a "heads up" (as they say in the sports world): this isn't your average sports list. ...more Tags: A Sense of Where You Are, Adrian Matejka, Against Football, Apocalyptic Swing, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, Booked, bury me in my jersey, Chad Harbach, Chris Bachelder, Citizen, Claudia Rankine, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Girl Through Glass, Haruki Murakami, Jessica Luther, John McPhee, Kerry Howley, Kwame Alexander, Megan Abbott, Natalie Diaz, reading list, reading recommendations, Sari Wilson, Steve Almond, The Art of Feilding, The Big Smoke, The Throwback Special, Thrown, tom mcallister, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, What to Read When, When My Brother Was An Aztec, William Finnegan, You Will Know Me
What to Read When You’re Thinking about Florida By The Rumpus September 15th, 2017 In celebration of our Floridian friends and family, we've compiled a list of great books that take place in, engage with, or otherwise visit the "Sunshine state." ...more Tags: Adios Happy Homeland, Alissa Nutting, Ana Menendez, book recommendations, Caprice, Continental Drift, Denise Duhamel, Emma Trelles, Felt in the Jaw, florida, How Small Confronting Morning, hurricane, Hurricane Irma, Joan Didion, Karen Russell, kristen arnett, laura van den berg, Lois Lenski, Lola Haskins, Looking for the Gulf Motel, Maureen Seaton, Miami, Richard Blanco, Russell Banks, Sarah Gerard, Strawberry Girl, Sunshine State, susan orlean, swamplandia, Tampa, The Isle of Youth, The Orchid Thief, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tropicalia, What to Read When, zora neale hurston
What to Read When You Don’t Want Summer to End By The Rumpus September 1st, 2017 A list of books that take place in the summer, remind us of summer, and/or just make for great beach reads. ...more Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beautiful Ruins, Catherine Lacey, chloe caldwell, Colson Whitehead, Cutting Teeth, Dandelion Wine, Deborah Landau, Dennis Lehane, Edith Wharton, elena ferrante, Eleni Sikelianos, Emma Straub, Ernest Hemingway, Garden of Eden, Herman Koch, J. Courtney Sullivan, Jess Walter, Julia Fierro, Karen Dionne, Laurie Foos, Maine, nobody is ever missing, outline, Rachel Cusk, Ray Bradbury, reading list, reading recommendations, Sag Harbor, samantha hunt, Since We Fell, summer, Summer House with Swimming Pool, The Blue Girl, The California Poem, The Last Usable Hour, The Lost Daughter, The Marsh King's Daughter, The Seas, The Vacationers, What to Read When, william shakespeare, women
What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway through 2017 By The Rumpus August 25th, 2017 A list of Rumpus editors' favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful. ...more Tags: 2017, Abandon Me, Achy Obejas, Ada Calhoun, Adventures in Form and Content, Albert Goldbarth, Animals Strike Curious Poses, Ars Botanica, Ayobami Adebayo, Bill Knott, Brittany Perham, Chanelle Benz, Chen Chen, Danzy Senna, David Grann, Dear Cyborgs, Donna M. Lucey, Double Portrait, Elena Passarello, Elif Batuman, Eugene Lim, Exit West, Florence in Ecstasy, Gabe Habash, Gypsy Moth Summer, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, I Am Flying into Myself, Jenny Zhang, Jessie Chaffee, Julia Fierro, Julie Buntin, Karolina Ramqvist, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Marlena, Melissa Febos, Mohsin Hamid, Morgan Parker, New People, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Rajiv Mohabir, reading list, reading recommendations, Roxane Gay, Samantha Irby, Sargent's Women, Sour Heart, Stay with Me, Stephen Florida, The Cowherd's Son, The Idiot, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, The Tower of the Antilles, The White City, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Tim Taranto, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, What to Read When, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours By Celeste Ng August 18th, 2017 Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours. ...more Tags: American War, California, celeste ng, Colson Whitehead, Dietland, dystopian, Edan Lepucki, EMily St John Mandel, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Omar el Akkad, Parable of the Sower, reading list, reading recommendations, Sarai Walker, Station Eleven, The Handmaid's Tale, The Underground Railroad, We Love You Charlie Freeman, What to Read When
What to Read When You Need to Know about Korea By The Rumpus August 11th, 2017 A list of books about Korea (both North and South) and by Koreans that Rumpus editors have read and enjoyed. ...more Tags: adam johnson, Blaine Harden, Chang-rae Lee, Dear Leader, Donald Trump, Escape from Camp 14, Han Kang, Han Yujoo, Jang Jin-sung, Kim Hyesoon, Korea, Kyung-Sook Shin, Native Speaker, North Korea, Please Look After Mom, reading list, reading recommendations, Recitation, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, south korea, Suah Bae, suki kim, The Impossible Fairy Tale, The Orphan Master's Son, The Vegetarian, Trump, What to Read When, without you there is no us, Young-ha Kim, Your Republic is Calling You
What to Read When You Want to Go to College By The Rumpus August 4th, 2017 College is a rite of passage for many young people, and it's also a part of the American Dream for many families. Here is a list of books that tackle those fraught four years. ...more Tags: academia, affirmative action, Chad Harbach, Cole Lavalais, college, Cupcake Brown, Dear Committee Members, Donald Trump, Donna Tartt, education, education system, Elif Batuman, For Discrimination, Frank Donoghue, higher education, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Washburn, John Williams, Jonathan Kozol, Julie Schumacher, Loner, Marina Keegan, Mary McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Pictures from an Institution, Randall Jarrell, Randall Kennedy, Savage Inequalities, Stoner, T. Geronimo Johnson, Teddy Wayne, The Art of Fielding, The Group, The Idiot, The Last Professors, The Marriage Plot, The Opposite of Loneliness, The Secret History, Uncommon Women and Others, University Inc., Welcome to Braggsville, Wendy Wasserstein, What to Read When, Wonder Boys
What to Read When You Need Some Good News By The Rumpus July 28th, 2017 Take a quick break from the apocalyptic news and end your week with this list of books to eagerly anticipate (assuming the world doesn't end) instead! ...more Tags: A Good Day for Seppuku, Alex Lemon, Alice Anderson, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Andrea Jarrell, Anna Quinn, Ariel Gore, book recommendations, Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, carmen maria machado, celeste ng, Chelsea Martin, Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead, Electric Arches, Empty Set, Eve Ewing, Feverland, Gabriel Tallent, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Gayle Brandeis, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Her Body and Other Parties, I'm the One Who Got Away, Jen Cross, Jennifer Egan, Jesmyn Ward, Jon McGregor, Josh Weil, Kamilah Aisha Moon, kate braverman, Katia D. Ulysse, Kaveh Akbar, Little Fires Everywhere, Manhattan Beach, Mouths Don't Speak, My Absolute Darling, reading recommendations, Rene Denfeld, Reservoir 13, Rivers Solomon, Rocket Fantastic, Sing Unburied Sing, Some Bright Morning I'll Fly Away, Starshine & Clay, Swallowing Mercury, The Age of Perpetual Light, The Art of Misdiagnosis, The Child Finder, The Night Child, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, We Were Witches, What to Read When, Wioletta Greg, Writing Ourselves Whole
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