2011
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/14-2/20
This week, Do You Love Me Now? (The Rumpus does), 826 Valencia’s Spelling Bee for Cheaters, all you can eat pancakes, and Will Franken hosts The Grand Opening of a New Baby. Monday 2/14: Spend Valentine’s Day with your beloved…
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Eileen Myles Weighs in
Over at The Awl, Eileen Myles shares her thoughts on seeing the VIDA pie graphs. She tells us that writing by women is inherently more interesting: “Why? Because the female reality is still largely unknown. And language is the thrill…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Rumors are wafting, nay, zooming around the interwebz about the new iPhone nano. The US State Dept is now tweeting in Farsi. Iranian revolution, part 2, anyone? Some contributing bloggers are kinda pissed about the Huffington Post’s recent acquisition for…
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McSweeney’s has The Goods
McSweeney’s and Tribune Media Services are bringing The Goods – “a gallimaufry of games, puzzles, comics, and other diversions” for kids and adults – to weekly newspapers. Contributing artists and writers include The Rumpus’s own Jon Adams.
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Jonathan Lethem: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Jonathan Lethem has traded in the crowded Brooklyn literary scene for a classroom in sunny Southern California. Nevertheless, he’s currently at work on a novel set back in Queens. Lethem, who describes one of his past books as “an all-out…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #74
MY VALENTINE’S DATE ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my Valentine’s Date.
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Wants/Needs
We have now featured three “Rumpus Readers Report,” (“Family/Holidays,” “Neighborhood,” and “Impossible Love“) but let’s be honest, three is not nearly enough. We’re hungry for more of your writing, and this time we want you to tackle the theme “Wants/Needs.”…
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The Star of Manners and Letters
Illustrations by Aazarnoush Ebraahemiroushan for The Star of Manners and Letters (Iran, 1986).
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Notable New York, This Week 2/14-2/20
This week in New York spend your Valentine’s Day at Six-Word Story Slam on Love & Heartbreak or hearing dark and twisted love stories at Housing Works; Michael Cunningham, Mary Gaitskill, Zadie Smith, and others get together to talk retreats…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Love is sort of cool right? Sinking ship art installation (woo). Interesting fact: animals are fascinating a lot of the time. Department of maybe-you-would-like-to-buy-this: the world’s largest toy collection. If you do not love levitating people there is something wrong…