2011
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To Teach Or Not to Teach?
The ever-contentious subject of teaching creative writing is up for discussion. You can teach the elements, but there are always the “intangibles that cannot be taught.” Roxane Gay is inciting a discussion on HTMLGiant, laying some foundation for all of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #102
SOCKS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing socks.
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Should We Fight to Save the Indie Bookstore? (Yes).
Book Bench blogger, Macy Halford is lamenting the downfall of the indie bookstore. Much like the decimation of the video store, there’s a bunch of romance and nostalgia tied up with these places. But does that warrant all the talk…
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Right Place, Wrong Time
We have now featured seven “Rumpus Readers Report” collections (“Family/Holidays,” “Neighborhood,” “Impossible Love,” “Wants/Needs,” “The Gift,” “Near and Far,” and “Running Away“); but let’s be honest, seven is not nearly enough. We’re hungry for more of your writing, and this…
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O’Rourke’s “Theory vs. Practice”
The author of this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection, Meghan O’Rourke is in the new issue of the Paris Review. You can read her poem, “Theory vs Practice” here to get excited for this.
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“Let’s Talk About Us” (Tonight!)
This September’s Rumpus event is the ultimate San Francisco literary collaboration. We’re teaming us with The Believer Magazine to bring you a night of literary joy! Join us September 12th (TONIGHT!), 7pm at the Make-out Room, 3225-22nd Street, San Francisco!…
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If Hemingway Were a Poet
In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life.
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Notable New York, This Week 9/12-9/18
This week in New York, an Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading at The New School, non-fiction with The Believer at KGB Bar, Pitchapalooza, Poetry from the Rooftops, The Center for Fiction celebrates The Literarian, a reading with author Tananarive Due, and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I didn’t want to put my books on your shelves anyway, Ikea. The Chinese are crushing us both in industry AND whimsy! We are also being beaten by the Finnish in the important buildings on boats department. Welcome to 2011,…
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All Over Coffee
Regret TrilogyClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…