2011
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The Rumpus Interview with Dylan Landis
Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
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Defoe’s Zombieless Zombie Narrative
“Defoe’s novel, published in 1722, is a mutant factual-fiction that recounts the plague epidemic of 1665, which dispatched almost 100,000 Londoners. Purporting to be the ‘memorial’ of a survivor known only as ‘H.F.’, it was based on genuine documentary sources,…
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Being Flynn
A trailer for Being Flynn, the film based on Rumpus pal Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, is now online.
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Higher Education: Coming and Going
“Many—perhaps most—books on the American university fall into two categories. Jeremiads seem to pop off the presses every week. A fair number of them conform to a single type, one that embraces books as varied in their origins as The…
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Why I Chose T. R. Hummer’s Ephemeron for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Brian Spears on why he chose T. R. Hummer’s Ephemeron as the November selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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Adam Gopnik Interview
“A prolific writer, Adam Gopnik has left almost no topic untouched, from Darwin and Lincoln to—not necessarily in that order – Mark Twain, Marx (Groucho), W.H. Auden, James Taylor, leaving New York for Paris, leaving Paris for New York, dogs,…
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Ode to Chicago – Love and Shame and Love
“Though Peter Orner is quite purposeful and precise in his nonlinear approach to storytelling, reading his latest novel Love and Shame and Love can evoke the sensation of unpacking a box full of memories.” Chicago Tribune reviews this month’s Rumpus…
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Hungryman Gallery Poetry Reading
Rumpus contributor Jesse Nathan will be reading poetry alongside Zubair Ahmed and Yosefa Raz (two other young Bay Area poets) as part of the closing reception for Impact. The event takes place this Saturday, November 19th, at Hungryman Gallery located…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #110
THE COMPUTER AT THE JAMAICA PLAIN LIBRARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the computer at the Jamaica Plain Library.
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An Occupy Roundup
It’s eviction day in Occupy Oakland. No injuries reported, and 32 people were arrested for failure to disperse. An interesting story of an Oakland police officer who’s been accused of trying to infiltrate the movement. Jay-Z has pulled his Occupy…
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Notable San Francisco 11/14-11/20
This Week in San Francisco- Monday 11/14: The November Monthly Rumpus! Join us tonight at 7pm at the The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring authors Kim Addonizio, Rachel Resnick, Dean Rader, Jillian Lauren, and Chicken John! Plus…