2011
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #114
THE GAS PEDAL ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the gas pedal.
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Elissa Schappell Interview
Bomblog interviews Elissa Schappell about her collection of short stories, Blueprints for Building Better Girls. Schappell talks about the writing process, setting, and the idea of “gendered writing.” “It’s no secret how crazy the concept of “gendered” writing makes me.…
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This Week in Love and Shame and Love
“Teeming yet not hyperactive, full of emotion without being mushy, elegant yet intimate, this is a book that gets into your head and makes itself at home there.” That is praise from The New York Times’ review of Peter Orner’s…
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Notable San Francisco 12/12-12/17
This week in San Francisco- Monday 12/12: The Rumpus and Mother Jones Magazine are teaming up for the December Monthly Rumpus, “A Night of Truth and Lies.” Featuring authors Anna Pulley, David Rocklin, Mac McClelland, and Joshua Mohr. Comedy by…
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All Over Coffee #563 Collaboration with Isaac Fitzgerald
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Isaac Fitzgerald. Click here to view. …more
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Death of an Author
Edouard Levé’s Suicide, a slim, declarative, idea-driven novel, is daring and raw, and packed full of rewards for any reader willing to take a wide step outside of the American mainstream.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/12-12/18
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series; David Lipsky on David Foster Wallace; the 2011 Awkward Office Lit Mag Party; RISK!; launch party for OCCUPY! Scenes from Occupied America; PopRally’s Reliquary House: An Evening with Oneohtrix Point…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Listen people, Norway is running out of butter! How I love you San Francisco. (Related.) Future Drama is your tumblr of the week. Now let’s all take a moment to discuss the contents of an iceman’s stomach.
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Why I Chose Amy Newman’s Dear Editor for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Amy Newman’s Dear Editor as the December selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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Men’s Magazine or Rapist?
Yuck. According to a new study, most people who are presented with descriptions of women from British “lad’s mags” and statements made about women from convicted rapists can’t tell which source the comments came from. When presented with the statements,…