2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: maybe Columbus discovered Syphilis too! Have you always wished you could be shot out of a gun after you die? Good news! So here’s the deal: maybe there used to be giant octopuses, and…
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Missing Tiles in the American Mosaic: The Rumpus Interview with Alia Malek
In late October 2000, Alia Malek, the American daughter of Syrian immigrant parents, started work as a civil rights lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department. She then watched the newly-elected Bush Administration re-direct
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Notable San Francisco 10/10-10/16
This week in San Francisco-Litquake 2011 takes the town with 500 authors at over 100 events. Check the website for a full calendar, and read on for some highlights. Monday 10/10: San Francisco’s premier storytelling series Porchlight hosts Are We…
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“Time is a gift…”
“Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of ‘Nevermind’—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we’ve got five on each hand, we count things out in tens and hundreds. And yet the fifty-year…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #105
BRAD, THE FRONT DESK CLERK AT THE HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brad, the front desk clerk at the Holiday Inn…
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Occupy Wall Street Library
“A prerequisite for any successful revolution is literature.” In case you missed it: we posted a story by Matthew Wolfe about “The Occupy Wall Street Library” over the weekend.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/10-10/16
This week in New York, the Franklin Park and Belladonna Reading Series; Margaret Atwood on science fiction; Debut Fiction Reading with Teju Cole, Anna Solomon, and Rebecca Wolff; Henry Rollins at McNally Jackson; Poets House Sleepover for Members; Flash fiction…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the wi-fi dowsing rod (this is what it’s come to). Eeee! Dinosaur footprints! Atlas Obscura’s 31 days of Halloween project brings LA’s Sowden House. Perhaps it is time to explore vintage paper cutout theater sets. What we should really…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Meghan O’Rourke
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Meghan O’Rourke about her poetry collection Once.
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The Rumpus Interview with Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell and I met too many years ago to say, at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. We were both waiters, which means that you serve students, scholars, fellows and faculty, and you either watch people behave badly or you…
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Occupy SF Art and Performance Series
This week, come check out the Occupy SF Art and Performance Series, with local awesomes like Michelle Tea, Nato Green, Kamau Bell, Heklina, Literary Death Match’s Alia Volz, and more A few days ago, Hiya Swanhuyser and I ran into each…