Dearest Readers,
I have been taking care of someone post-surgery the past few weeks, and the room where they're currently laid up is ~*toasty*~. Despite our best efforts, the air conditioning doesn't go into the room. I have been bringing them lots of ice cream and popsicles and cold drinks, and fantasizing about owning a kiddie pool and thinking about the term summer reading.
I'd argue that beach reading is a subset of summer reading—all beach books are summer books but not all summer books are beach books type of thing. Summer reading also suggests pre-semester coursework or the books you were supposed to have finished before class started. Where does connotation end and marketing begin?
Anyway, here are the books that I've been reading and loving this summer:
A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA
BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2021
COUNTERFEIT
THE CRANE WIFE
WHY THE CHILD IS COOKING IN THE POLENTA
I'm the person wearing a giant black hat on the beach unless it's wintertime on a rocky coast. GOOD STORIES ARE SEASONLESS!
Reminder: You won't hear from me next week unless you've signed up to be a Rumpus member! We're 113 Members strong and hope to get to 500 by the end of our 1st ever Member Drive, which ends on June 30.
Till two-weeks-from-now,
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We remain open through the end of the month for essay submissions to our special issue on disability in education. We're open through the end of August for our regular, non-themed essay submissions. We are always open for book review submissions, of both poetry collections and prose.
I cannot speak enough praises for our reviewers and our review editors. As an author, it's getting to experience someone engaging with your work without actually having to be face-to-face and closely monitoring your own facial expressions. As a reader, it often feels like a smart friend telling me about a book they read recently. |
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We've got some more gems to read-along this month. We're also switching over to subscriber-only ~*video*~ instead of Slack chats with authors, so you'll be able to see me try to not freak out while talking with Charles Baxter next month. Click on the book below to join by June 15th.
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OUR INAUGURAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IS ONGOING. MEMBERSHIP MEMBERSHIP MEMBERSHIP. After our first week, we're at just over 20% of our initial goal.
As part of the drive, our fiction editors did an AMA on IG a few days ago, and our interviews editors will be heading one up next week. As 'em anything!
If you'd just like to donate some $$$ because you'd like to see us get our (decade +) website refreshed, you can do that too. |
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Saturday, June 11Celebrate Bloomsday at The Ivy1pm ET, IRL in Baltimore, MD
Monday, June 13A double-header (is that the right sport?) at Brooklyn's Community Bookstore7pm ET, online, Jessi Jezewska presents THE VISITORS with Joshua Cohen7:30pm ET, IRL, Ibram X. Kendi presents HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST with Mira Jacob
Wednesday, June 15Lars Horn presents VOICE OF THE FISH: A LYRIC ESSAY in conversation with Carolina De Robertis6pm PT, online via City Lights Books |
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