2015
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Join The Rumpus at SF LitCrawl
People of the San Francisco Bay Area! This year’s Litquake festival is already underway, with outstanding performances happening all over town. Come help us cap off the whole shebang at The Make-Out Room on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. this Saturday!
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Memorable Beasts in Books
Over at Lit Hub, Lincoln Michel offers us a wonderful list of books that prominently feature animals in strange and interesting ways. You won’t find Watership Down or Moby-Dick on this list (too obvious!).
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The Freedom of Fiction
Literature may be weak because it has no real power in the world, but in a way it is the grandest narrative of all, in that it puts ourselves into question with fiction. We challenge ourselves and refuse to take…
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Sound Takes: Don’t Weigh Down the Light
Her lyrics tend to blend together, but it isn’t a turn-off. Instead, it feels intentional; Don’t Weigh Down the Light is more about the feeling than the words.
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Song of the Day: “Saint Louis Blues”
One of the most enduring individual legacies from the Jazz Age is that of the towering figure of Louis Armstrong. The super-influential artist grew up in New Orleans’s Storyville district during a time of artistic upheaval. His exposure to the musical melting…
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Notable Portland: 10/15–10/21
Thursday 10/15: New York Times bestselling author Vanessa Diffenbaugh discusses her array of novels, answers audience questions, and is joined in conversation by Mary Lee, national coordinator for Youth Villages’ LifeSet, a program helping former foster youth and other young people transition…
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The Allure of Witchery
New York Magazine has an excerpt from Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America.
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The President Chats Up Marilynne Robinson
We already know that President Obama is a well-read man, his trips to the bookstore always yielding stacks of books to devour, and now he tries his hand at interviewing one of his favorite authors, Marilynne Robinson. The New York…
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Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong edited by Caroline Casey, Chris Fischbach, and Sarah Schultz
Lawrence Lenhart reviews Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, edited by Caroline Casey, Chris Fischbach, and Sarah Schultz, today in Rumpus Books.
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You Don’t Mess with Shakespeare
Shakespeare is about the intoxicating richness of the language… It’s like the beer I drink. I drink 8.2 per cent I.P.A., and by changing the language in this modernizing way, it’s basically shifting to Bud Light. Bud Light’s acceptable, but…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m pretty fascinated by this never build Wizard of Oz theme park, to be totally honest here. A brief history of Olympic environmental disasters (spoiler alert: the Olympics are actually the worst). Some very important dinosaur blood temperature news. When…
