2011
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Lorelei Lee Will Help You Write
Lorelei Lee, longtime Rumpus contributor, lover of books and creative writing scholar, is teaching “Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body,” a six-week class on corporeal creative writing hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture, SF. You can…
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Poem from ZYZZYVA
“I need it all flying apart. My friends to slam against me, to hold me, to say they love me.” From Carl Adamshick’s “Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter
My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink coffee and do pink-hearts with my friends. I had to…
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The Last Book I Loved: Testify
I’ve been a fan of Joseph Lease’s poetry since I read his first book, Human Rights; and his latest, aptly-named collection, Testify, just released in April from Coffee House Press, is as taut and thrilling, as full of urgency and…
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In This Light
In This Light, a collection of Melanie Rae Thon’s short stories, shows the writer’s shifts in the last twenty years, while reminding us of her powerful, haunting storytelling.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the rad new animals. Speaking of: wild animal sex! Let’s all watch BART get built, yes? Beautiful parking lots (seem like an oxymoron sometimes). Hurray for Czechoslovakian book covers and postage…
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Welcome to the Ten-In-One
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The Alligator Man and the Bearded Lovely Lisa Brown continues her incredible Rumpus Comic series: “Welcome to the Ten-In-One.”
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Changing Our Habits, Not Twitter
Cathy Davidson wrote a response to Bill Keller’s article on the pitfalls of twitter, “The Twitter Trap.” She defends technology with some historical and neuroscience-based evidence, calling for a restructuring of our habits, instead of a complete dismissal of current…
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San Francisco, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in San Francisco: SMiLE at the Knockout to raise money for the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, SF Popfest gets going at the Rickshaw and CHEESE! at the Academy of Sciences. Monday, May 23 – Tonight, SMiLE (if…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Somehow I missed this back in March: gesture-based touchscreen phone keyboard Swype is available for download again! Laptop batteries that will last three years? Sign me up! Chinese factory Foxconn, which supplies Apple with parts and had a spate of worker…