2011
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Happy with Crocodiles
A short story by Jim Shepard, author of the forthcoming collection You Think That’s Bad, our Rumpus Book Club pick for February. *** Her envelope had hearts where the o’s in my name should have been and I tore it…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/31-2/6
This week in San Francisco, Airplane! takes over the Castro Theater, Feast of Words: Sensory Feast, a free Valentine’s Day Etsy Labs Craft Bar, Mirah & Thao, and The Dude abides at the 8th Annual Lebowski Party. Monday 1/31: As…
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Deus Ex Machina
Rumpus Books editor Andrew Foster Altschul’s latest book (and recent Rumpus Book Club pick), Deus Ex Machina, hits shelves tomorrow. Hooray! Today, though, Altschul got a nice mention at The Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy and interviewed himself at The Nervous…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #72
SHORTS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing shorts.
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Pacazo by Roy Kesey – Review
Josh Anastasia responds to January’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: Pacazo is a story about a man coming to terms with the murder of his wife and how to move on in the face of tragedy; the stories that we tell…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The Chinese government is blocking search results on the protests in Egypt. Speaking of which, what’s actually inside those Made-In-USA tear gas canisters being used by Egyptian police? The FBI raided a bunch of people suspected of involvement in the…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender is nothing if not a master of alluring premises. She’s made a name for herself as a virtuoso of “magical realism,” but this distinction doesn’t quite capture her real talent. Her ideas, the divergences from our own reality…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/31-2/06
This week in New York lots of literary events to make you forget that you’re not going to be at AWP: authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko introduced by Toni Morrison at the 92nd Street Y, Bomb Magazine…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve been really fascinated watching the architectural proposals for “A Room For London” come in. Mainly because I am boring. If you are in need of some enlightenment perhaps you’d like to read Gandhi and Tolstoy’s correspondence. This week in…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Deb Olin Unferth: Part 1, The Interview
“For years I was angry at myself for having run away with a man. Later, I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t that person anymore. Why couldn’t I find someone to give me an identity again?”