The Daily Rumpus
Get Overly Personal Emails
From Stephen Elliott
MONDAY 03/25:
Head to An Evening with The Believer tonight. The event will be introduced by The Believer editor Andrew Leland and will feature readings from Joanna Fuhrman, Alan Gilbert, and Margo Jefferson, as well as a conversation between The Believer editor Ross Simonini and author Gary Lutz.
What do you do when a devastating hurricane prevents your community from going to the library?
You bring the library to the people with “a mobile book bus” and “a rapid response team of librarians.”
Librarians: dedicated to their jobs to the point of heroism.
...more
Tomorrow is the Brooklyn Book Festival, which means everyone in Brooklyn will gather in auditoria and listen to writers speak. Because many of these writers will be from Brooklyn themselves. Because, as Colson Whitehead remarked, “Google ‘brooklyn writer’ and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”
...more