2011
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Love and Shame and Love TONIGHT
Love and Shame and Love (this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection) is having a Novel Launch TONIGHT from 7:30-9:30pm at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street). There is free food and drink, as well as a lively reading! Find out why…
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Sam’s Casual Reading
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941–1956 was published recently by Cambridge University Press, and on its blog the publisher has compiled a list of books Beckett read during those years, culled from his letters, with commentary from the…
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The Rumpus Review of The Skin I Live In
Here’s a game: try to imagine what great directors would do if they had been forbidden by some cosmic entity from making films.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Should the FCC carry the Emergency Broadcast System over to social networks? Common sense says yes. It’s easy to forget the Internet actually comes from somewhere, namely data centers like these. This “flirtatious” dress changes the transparency of its fabric…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd
July 24, 2011. Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd confidently walk up a flight of stairs inside Brooklyn’s Municipal Building City Hall that sweltering Sunday morning.
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The Slow Urgency of Drowning
Stacie Leatherman weaves lush metaphors and imagery that drifts and flakes, and is riddled with earthly abundance, colors, and dust. Her writing is sensory, and her voice and syntax trick you until you lose the difference between leaves and flesh.
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Writers as Pinups
“Now don’t get us wrong — of course we believe that the stuff in their heads is much more important that the shape of their heads (or the shape of their bodies, for that matter) but that doesn’t mean we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How to drive to the end of the world. The moral here is that you don’t need to assume everything is symbolism. Atlas title pages (hurray)! Soviet bus stops are also neat. “Danger is Everywhere” thank you for existing 50…