June 2012
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Notable San Francisco: 6/18-6/24
This Week in San Francisco: it’s pride week! Monday 6/18: The LitSlam is a “live performance-curated poetry publication where the audience serves as the Editors,” and the loudest cheers determine whose work graces the journal. Tonight’s monthly reading features Albuquerque-based…
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The Last Book I Loved: Birds of America: Stories
I am a voyeur to the core. Keep your house lit at night and I will peer in to see how you spend your time alone, or what colors you’ve painted your walls. Invite me in and I will pick…
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The Truth about Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
The title of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s most recent novel, The Truth About Marie, is an impish wink and a nudge to the reader. The plot, such as it is, involves a man describing his ex-girlfriend Marie’s relationship with another man after…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/18-6/24
This week in NYC: MONDAY 6/18: This sounds like a fun party game. Four writers—Saara Dutton, Daniel Guzmán, Michael Maiello, and Peter Olson—imagine a discarded novel by Stephen King and read the sections they created at KGB Bar. Free, 7pm.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
As this goes live, I should be landing in London. I used to live there, spending the better parts of 1988-90 in the city as a student, a squatter, a receptionist, a bartender, and a maid respectively. I considered London…
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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#1)
Looking back, you see than while many things happened before Renee was killed, this is really where all the other things start and, to a certain degree, end . . .
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: But I Don’t Want to Get Gone
So many people were reading Gone Girl by the time I’d heard of it that I knew I had to get on the train. It’s a thriller, a potboiler. It’s terribly engaging.
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It’s Bloomsday
James Joyce’s most famous works were long, complicated and, depending on who you’re asking, arguably inaccessible novels. But writing to his four-year-old grandson Stephen (yes, that Stephen) in August 1936 he set himself out a simpler task: write a story…
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Time Interviews Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed talks with Time about Wild, Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things, how the Pacific Crest Trail has changed since 1995, current projects, and more. “My intent was—stories, poems, they have been my guiding lights. I thought, why not…
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OG DAD: Lick the Sofa and Die
My fear, as a late-in-the game dad, was that somehow I’d end up in diapers before my baby was out of them.