2011
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Helen DeWitt Interview
Helen DeWitt conversed with The Awl about her new novel Lighting Rods. Elaborating on influences and stylistic devices, DeWitt opens up about fantasies, detail-orientation, and 18th century satirists. “But as soon as you bring up 18th-century satirists I think: Of…
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An Enduring Paradox
Catch-22 turns 50 this year. NPR explores how and why the the novel’s central paradox still resonates with readers—particularly with “a new crop of young people distrustful of their elders. ” “Catch-22 is a concept everyone can understand. That’s why…
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A Life Defined By Circumstance: Maryam Keshavarz Explores Freedom In Tehran
In 1982, my parents packed a suitcase and paid a smuggler to help them escape from Tehran, Iran. The reason? Me.
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Artists Coming Out To Support Occupy San Francisco
Last night, as part of the Occupy SF Art and Performance Series, Foxtails Brigade, Sherilynn Connelly, and others came out to support the protestors at Bierman Park. By pretty much all accounts, it was incredible. Foxtails Brigade—with Laura Weinbach, Anton Patzner…
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Occupy Wall Street Roundup
It looks like the protesters will not be allowed to bring their gear and tents back to Zuccotti Park after the planned clean-up tomorrow. The Pew Research Center finds that news about the expanding protests made up just 7% of…
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A Rumpus at Muni Diaries
At the Muni Diaries Reunion Show, our own managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald told a story “about heroics on the D.C. Metro, and why wearing khaki pants doesn’t necessarily make you gangster” (we’re not sure of their use of “heroics” here,…
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LitCrawl + Rumpus = ♥
This October’s Rumpus event will collide with LitCrawl, Litquake’s final evening. Join in the Crawl on Saturday, October 15th and come find us at 8:30pm at the Make-Out Room. The event will feature Stephen Elliot, Kathleen Alcott, Isaac Fitzgerald, Laura…
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Christopher Hitchens and the Eight-Year-Old
“What books should I read?” That’s the question a brave eight-year-old girl asked Christopher Hitchens at the Dawkins Award ceremony in Houston, TX. Click here to learn what happened next.
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Moby Dick: Illustrated and Interpreted
Through playful and evocative illustrations, Matt Kish’s Moby Dick in Pictures transforms on one of the greatest American novels and makes it relevant again.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Big Picture on Occupy Everywhere (I love you Big Picture). Department of things-to-buy-me-please: The Keaton Music Typewriter. Sentimental Cartography. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, slide based art is the best art. That last link led…
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Why I Chose Bear, Diamonds and Crane
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan’s Bear, Diamonds and Crane as the October selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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National Book Award Finalists
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and there’s more than a few familiar names on the list: