2015
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Notable San Francisco: 9/30–10/6
Wednesday 9/30: Marin poets Angelika Quirk (Of Ruins and Rumors) and Ella Yetan will be reading tonight in San Rafael. This event is part of the series, Hand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT. Free, 6:30 p.m., Rebound Bookstore. Are you a fan…
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The Adjunct Crisis
Nearly a third of all adjunct college faculty live below the poverty line. But its not just low pay that make these jobs miserable: lack of job security, long hours, and the expectation of filling roles that were once tenured,…
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Happy Banned Books Week!
The point is not to rank inflammatory books like game highlights. It’s to remind readers that information hasn’t always been free, and that we have librarians to thank for its freedom. Huffington Post’s Maddie Crum explores why we celebrate Banned…
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Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Linda Ashok reviews Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Powerhouse Spanish Literary Agent Remembered
The New Yorker has a retrospective on Carmen Balcells, a Spanish literary agent who brought writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Luis Borges to international fame. Balcells passed away last week at the age of 85. Balcells…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As long as it’s on everyone’s mind, let’s enjoy some old maps of mars. Is there an evolutionary purpose to masturbation? The Book of Delightful and Strange Design. Viruses are (very old) animals too buds. A short history of the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Karr
Mary Karr talks about her new book The Art of Memoir, the perception of memoir from a “trashy” form, the virtues of poetry, and the complexity of truth-telling.
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A Hopeful Construct
If writing can’t be taught, why do we spend so much time talking about it? Jayne Anne Phillips chimes in on the MFA debate: Life does not ‘tenure’ anyone. In that sense, it was all a hopeful construct.
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Does Music “Unleash Latent Genius”?
For The Millions, Jacob Lambert explores how listening to music while writing can influence performance. Although some studies show that music may impede concentration and “disrupt writing fluency,” others suggest that music can “lift your mood and increase your arousal.” Lambert…
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Never Protest the Same Way Twice
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Justin Campbell interviewed Micah White about founding Adbusters, his struggle growing up biracial, and how one should never protest the same way twice.
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This Week in Posivibes: Iron Lung Records
The Seattle-based label has been putting out some incredible punk records lately, most recently the much-anticipated Positive Energy LP from East Berlin’s Diät. Founded by the band Iron Lung, which has been playing and making records in the West Coast hardcore punk…
