This August The Rumpus Book Club picks Poe Ballantine’s Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
From Brian Spear at The Rumpus:
There’s still plenty of time to join in on the conversation on our August book club selections, Poe Ballantine’s Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere and Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire. You can sign up here.
Here’s what you get when you join the book club(s): you get books before anyone else does, because we only select books that haven’t been released yet; you get to chat with a pretty smart group of folks who read a lot of books online; and you get to chat with the author online at the end of every month and ask them questions about their work.
So this month, we’re reading Poe Ballantine’s Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, which was blurbed by, among others people, our very own Cheryl Strayed. She writes, “He is utterly transparent on the page, a rare thing. He’s like a bird that’s almost but not quite extinct. This is his best book ever.”
To read more about Poe Ballantine, his memoir, Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, and the The Rumpus Book Club, go to The Rumpus.