In the first four hours it was advertised on the site, Elliott said that five people signed up for the club, big numbers for poetry. The book club was successful enough in its first month that Elliott decided to do something even stranger-a poetry book club. We haven't read the book yet, but we're looking forward to it, and think it's a book that people who read The Rumpus are also interested in. We're really interested in Tao as a writer on the margins of the mainstream literary world, really fond of some of his other books, and we've discussed him a lot on The Rumpus. "We're doing Tao Lin's new novel, Richard Yates, coming from Melville House in September. He believes that selection is one of the major benefits to book club members, so he's being picky: book club selections come from trusted editors' or friends' recommendations.Įlliott also picks books from authors he thinks have an affinity with The Rumpus. Magazine Book Club & Poetry Book Club Literature is community, become a Rumpus Member Profielfoto van Interviews AMA.
Almost immediately I started receiving letters from authors and publishers," Elliott said. Whatever's left from the subscription fee helps support the two-person staff of the magazine.Īlthough the club started only a month ago, publishers are already clamoring to get their books chosen: "We are being pitched a lot. The Rumpus pays the wholesale price for the books and also pays for shipping.
Those walls have come down-everyone is a potential reviewer." "It used to be that only people with jobs in the media could get advance copies of books," he said. Elliott believes that this benefits both reader and publisher. Club members are also invited to review the book The Rumpus publishes the best of these reader reviews. The Rumpus then edits that discussion and publishes it as an interview on the site. For $25 a month (a full-year's subscription costs $250), club members get a copy of the book a month before publication-Citrus County by John Brandon, from McSweeney's, was the first selection, in June, and a story collection called The Surf Guru by Doug Dorst, from Penguin, is the July pick-and can participate in an online discussion around pub date with the author.
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