2011
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Pale King Roundup
A roundup of all things Pale King related: The Millions has the first lines of The Pale King on their site today:
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FUNNY WOMEN #48: Catalog of Men’s Collegiate Scarves—Fall 1989
Although it’s Spring 2011 and the snow in the Quadrangle is melting, why not treat your manly neck like it’s 1989? Life is just a collection of scarves, and scarves were meant to last.
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David S. Atkinson: A Book Club Member Reviews The Chronology of Water
Rumpus Book Club member David S. Atkinson review’s this month’s selection, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water: Water is an unstoppable force.
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Last Night’s Monthly Rumpus Was on Fire
If you couldn’t make it to last night’s Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco here’s a taste of what you missed:
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Cameron MacKenzie: The Last Book I Loved, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
There’s literature and then there are books. You pick up a Rushdie or a Marquez or Bolaño–these are the kind of heavy works which aren’t works at all, but are more conveyances of the voice of the writer, inexhaustible, indulgent,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 4: even though we’ve reached our stated goal, we still need 35 dollars finish recording our second album. maybe you would like to help? Long story short, Russians are the most bad ass of us all. THIS…
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Smith and Charlie Hoey, the Brains Behind the Great Gatsby Game
When you think about The Great Gatsby, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Booze? Flappers? Car crashes?
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/14-3/20
This week in San Francisco, The Monthly Rumpus puts on its best pasties, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival is on, and food culture rocks SFMoMA with Sidebar: Wine! at How Wine Became Modern. Monday 3/14: Catch some…