February 2012
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I Kid You Not the Rush Is Good
Be ready for thresholds, light and dark—in both natural and fluorescent hues—and for getting high.
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Notes from Treasure Island!!!
Author Sara Levine read a few chapters from her novel Treasure Island!!! (a Rumpus Book Club selection) at WORD bookstore in Brooklyn and said wonderfully interesting things during the Q & A with the audience: On male plots v. female plots:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your weekends worth of circus sideshow banners. You know who was really inconvenienced by Japan’s earthquake last year? Underwater creatures. It turns out pollution is really bad for your memory, ladies. Let us now watch the white house be…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #3: What We Remember of the Old Country
Let’s say you work at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells, just down the road from Palm Springs. You do maintenance stuff: irrigation, pool filters, plumbing.
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Catharsis Through Netflix – Watching Atonement
On the first day of June, I found myself crying over my dinner while watching Atonement. It was thunderstorming outside, and the rain roared as it pounded on the pavement. Outside my window the street was lit up by paparazzi…
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Hailing in Flatbush
2 p.m. Saturday. Cars, taxis, buses, and dollar vans swarm. Ubiquitous on Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, dollar vans distinguish themselves from the frenzy of Brooklyn traffic with a fare-seeking catcall: Beep. Beep.
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The Rumpus Reads for 826 Chicago!
We are excited to to present an AWP offsite spectacular: The Rumpus Reads for 826 Chicago. Featuring readings by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed (yes indeed, Sugar will be in the house!), Peter Orner, Sommer Browning, Brian Spears and Stephen Elliott!…
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On Zoe Strauss and Thinking Big
At The Nation, Barry Schwabsky writes about photographer Zoe Strauss’ “Ten Years” exhibition. Exploring Strauss’ evolving approach to photographic techniques, portraiture and storytelling, Schwabsky argues that her artistic triumphs come from “thinking big”. “Strauss’s work was a runaway from birth,…
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A Celebration of Printed Correspondence
The Rumpus and Housing Works Proudly Present: Letters In The Mail. A Celebration of Printed Correspondence. Featuring Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Ames, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, Marie Calloway, Michelle Orange and Ariana Reines! With music by Alina Simone! Wednesday, February 22…