June 2012
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Here We Are Becoming Champs
When you say you are pinay or pinoy, especially in the States, I have a new name for you, it’s big sister or big brother. We are one big family.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick Somerville
Patrick Somerville on everything from riddles to the elemental power of love to his secular obsession with good and evil.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Laura Bogart, one-time-intern over at The Nervous Breakdown, has been coming into her own as a writer at breakneck speeds. Sometimes, the internet makes it easier to watch young writers grow in real-time, and when that happens it’s exciting as…
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Saturday History Lesson: Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
Dorothy Parker died, rather suddenly, of a heart attack in June of 1967. She was seventy-three but had not seemed particularly sick to her friends, who still found her an avid enthusiast of whisky and cigarettes.A chambermaid found her in…
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Creative Fuel
I’ve never been much of a drugs guy. My friends told me I got mean when I smoked, and anything harder made the next day feel so much worse than being on the drugs had felt good the day before.…
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We Love Paul Madonna
The 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards will honor our own Paul Madonna with the NCBR Recognition Award for Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection. The free ceremony will include readings by this year’s award-winning authors,…
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Richard Santos: The Last Book I Loved, A Perfect Spy
I wanted a genre book. You know, just a quick zip through something exciting, and heavy on plot and action—maybe not so deep with all that poeticism and character development stuff. My first mistake was picking a book by one…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Emily St. John Mandel
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Emily St. John Mandel about The Lola Quartet, panthers in Florida, her writing process, and more.
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We Love You Back, The Millions
We’ve always loved The Millions, but when they gave our redesign a shout-out, and described us as “everyone’s favorite scrappy San Francisco literary web site,” we swooned. So the secret’s out: Call us “scrappy” and we’ll fall hard for you.
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Where Are You Reading?
The answer for me, in this case, is among a group of statues on the Drake University campus in Des Moines, IA. I’m reading from our June Poetry Book Club selection, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts. I’ve posted video of this…
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Jason Novak’s Diary
Artist Jason Novak composes an illustrated diary on his Tumblr. Don’t miss “Diary Excerpt,” June 3, 2012. After the jump:
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Project Dad
Project Dad follows filmmaker Sharon Shattuck’s “quest to understand her LGBT family through a two-way dialogue with her dad,” who is transgender. The film, which is in the production phase, seeks to answer the question, “What is a healthy family?”…