November 2011
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This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Rumpus!
We are proud to announce the arrival of two THREE new Rumpus mugs, and two money-saving deals!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #112
THANKSGIVING, 2011 ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2011.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Inside Outside
Iceage New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?) Perhaps because the band consists of four clean-cut Danish teenagers, Iceage’s brash, discordant punk has made it the darlings of both the Pitchfork and the Maximumrocknroll sets.
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Notable San Francisco: 11/28-12/4
This week in San Francisco….! Monday 11/28: The New Yorker’s described Swiss writer Peter Stamm as “Albert Camus…in an age of email.” Reading tonight from his latest, Seven Years, at an event hosted by the Center for the Art of…
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Days of Future Passed
In the new book, In the Time of the Blue Ball, pseudonymous author, Manuela Draguer brings us three stories about Bobby Potemkine, a P.I. in an absurd world.
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Notable New York, This Week 11/28-12/04
This week in New York, a launch party for Emily Books; n + 1 readings at The Kitchen; How I Learned the Rules of Attraction: Stories About Online Dating; Happy Hour poetry reading with Jericho Brown and Mark Doty; a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Orlean
I think the idea of what people will do in order to service something they’re obsessed with or passionate about is very much a part of both books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, Picasso was a total hipster. Maybe you want to know where all life came from. Or maybe you just want to know about dogs. Holy cow brinicles are amazing! It’s always fun to use the internet…
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“Fiction With A Strong Sense Of Place”
Writers, listen up: I’ve got a pretty cool call for submissions for you. Fiddleblack, a small press and literary journal, is seeking fiction and nonfiction submissions for its digital winter issue and 2012 print annual. There are a few thematic…
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Food as a Weapon
Pepper is a spice found in almost every household. But in recent news it’s got a bad wrap as the weapon Pepper Spray, used against peaceful protesters and Black Friday shopping competition. At the Village Voice, Robert Sietsema has come…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Ouch. A really harsh rejection to Gertrude Stein. Here’s a lovely essay on hate. An interview with a conspiracy theorist (via). Feeling political? Here’s some revolutionary reading, from Lewis Lapham’s. (via)