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A Stellar Episode of a Stellar Lit Podcast
If you’re on the lookout for great podcasts about writing and writers (who isn’t?), you’ll want to stick Litquake’s LitCast in your earbuds.
Their latest episode features novelist Joshua Mohr and Guggenheim fellow/Believer Book Award winner Sam Lipsyte, live at San Francisco’s Tosca Café (which, just so everyone knows, is actually a bar, not a café, and is thus somewhat unhelpful when you go there for a reading expecting to be able to snack on a croissant while you listen).
...moreVideo Performances from “On Hands and Knees”
Lit Crawl: “On Hands and Knees”
If you’re in the Bay Area, join us tomorrow for the Rumpus Lit Crawl event, “On Hands and Knees.”
Saturday, Oct 13th, 8:30 – 9:30 pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.
With readings from Gina Frangello, Lorelei Lee, Rob Roberge, and Emily Rapp!
...moreLit Crawl: “On Hands and Knees”
The Rumpus Proudly Presents:
“On Hands and Knees”
Lit Crawl Phase 3: Saturday, Oct 13th, 8:30 – 9:30 pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.
With readings from Gina Frangello, Lorelei Lee, Rob Roberge, and Emily Rapp!
...moreLike Music for A Writer’s Ears
A little over a month ago, our friends at Litquake debuted their newest venture: a podcast.
Available as a free, bi-monthly download, Litquake’s Lit Cast features the “best of” in writerly conversations and readings that Litquake holds throughout the year, and has already showcased the talents of Adam Johnson, Geoff Dyer, Peter Carey, Carolyn Burke, and Alice LaPlante.
...morePASSWORD: A Literary Speakeasy
Litquake’s upcoming literary speakeasy promises “Prohibition-era cocktails, jazz, readings, and lots of feathers.”
Bay Area writers, including Rumpus friends Robin Ekiss, Josh Mohr, and our own Isaac Fitzgerald, will channel prominent historic authors.
Thursday, July 19th, 8pm at San Francisco’s Public Works (161 Erie Street).
...moreGeoff Dyer & David Thomson Convo (Tonight!)
Litquake and The Believer are presenting a conversation between novelist, essayist, and New York Times Book Review columnist Geoff Dyer and film critic David Thomson. Tonight, 7p.m. at North Beach’s Tosca Café. Admission is free. Get there early, Bay Area!
...moreLitCrawl + Rumpus = ♥
This October’s Rumpus event will collide with LitCrawl, Litquake’s final evening. Join in the Crawl on Saturday, October 15th and come find us at 8:30pm at the Make-Out Room.
The event will feature Stephen Elliot, Kathleen Alcott, Isaac Fitzgerald, Laura Goode, and Elissa Schappell (who we just interviewed)!
...moreLitquake Interviews Karen Russell
Litquake talks with Swamplandia author Karen Russell in a final interview before the festival’s kick-off tomorrow! The conversation reveals abhorred writing styles; overused phrases; favorite writers, words and fiction heroes; and more.
“I like assigning The Waves and Geek Love to students, or a book like Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son, because you can practically watch their pupils dilate as they read them—I think there are certain books that are so stylistically innovative or so wholly “other” that they detonate inside readers.
...moreLitquake A Week Away
San Francisco’s Litquake 2011 runs Oct. 7-15. The nine-day annual literary festival will feature 850 Authors and 150 Events.
This year’s Litquake will include conversations with Young Ireland; Nordic Noir; Mexican Feminism; Art of Writing panels; Iranian Women; Religious Renegades; Original Shorts; Stories on Stage; MFA Smack Down; Ishmael Reed & Broun Fellinis; Illustrated Books; Pro Wrestlers; Rock Out With Your Book Out; Flight of Poets; LDM; Porchlight; plus Thomas McGuane, James Ellroy, Janis Cooke Newman, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Chelsea Handler, Karen Russell, Carolyn Cooke, Katie Crouch, Julia Glass, Daniel Woodrell, Chuck Klosterman, Brian Christian, Adam Mansbach, Alexander Maksik, Jeffrey Eugenides, and a Sausalito houseboat crawl…all culminating in the annual 75-venue Lit Crawl!
...moreLitquake Chats Up Jesse Ball
In anticipation of their annual festival on October 7-15, San Francisco’s Litquake has teamed up with Bomblog for an interview series. This week, fiction writer and poet Jesse Ball—whose new novel, The Curfew, is on shelves—discusses favorite writers, words and fiction heroes; desired eras, talents and deaths; greatest achievements, and more.
...moreSweet Deal!
Rumpus readers are getting a sweet deal!
The good folks over at Litquake are hosting an event on July 10th called the New Literary Vanguard, in which they will “delve into the minds of the new generation of American male novelists,” namely Jesse Ball (who is reading at our next monthly event!
...moreNotable San Francisco, This Week: 10/4-10/10
This week in San Francisco, get your book on every night of the week with Litquake, Dave Cooper at the Cartoon Art Museum, the centennial episode of Literary Death Match, and 10/10/10: Powers of Ten and the art of Ray and Charles Eames — what a spectacular week!
...moreNotable San Francisco, This Week: 9/27-10/3
This week in San Francisco: The Rumpus Book Club meets IRL, Litquake!, art at Benders, Litquake (Ferlinghetti style), and Barely Published Authors (AKA Litquake!).
Monday 9/27: Are you a member of The Rumpus Book Club yet? Want to “audit” the class before you commit to the reading assignments?
...moreNotable San Francisco, This Week: 7/19-7/25
This week: mutant cowboys at the Roxie, The Botany of Desire, a Litquake cocktail party, roller disco, and more film festival goodness!
Monday 7/19: Bounty hunters, vigilante justice, and good old fashioned wild west gun-slinging. The Dead and the Damned has all that and ravenous mutants, and it’s showing at the Roxie tonight as a part of SF IndieFest’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features all the underground fantasy, scifi, and horror films you could possibly want. Tickets $10-11.50, 9pm @ 3117 16th Street.
...moreInternal: Jerry Stahl in San Francisco
This Friday, April 3 in San Francisco, The Rumpus is teaming up with Litquake and City Lights Books to throw a book release party for Jerry Stahl’s new book Painkillers.