October 2016
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Notable San Francisco: 10/19–10/25
Wednesday 10/19: UCB’s Holloway Series presents Tonya Foster. Free, 6:30 p.m., UC Berkeley. Sarah Griffin of Dublin, Ireland returns in triumph to San Francisco, the internationally celebrated author of a debut novel, Spare and Found Parts. Free, 7:30 p.m., The…
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High Fidelity: Anita Raja on Translation
The editors at Asymptote Journal certainly couldn’t have expected Elena Ferrante to be outed when they planned their October 2016 issue, which includes Rebecca Falkoff and Stiliana Milkova’s translation of a 2015 speech given by Anita Raja. In “Translation as…
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Dreaming of Oscar
Katherine you must come to my table. I’ve got Oscar Wilde there. He’s the most marvelous man I ever met. He’s splendid! Over at the Paris Review Daily, Dan Piepenbring posted an excerpt from Katherine Mansfield’s 1920 letter to her…
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On Gardening for a Dead President
At Catapult, J.D. Ho takes readers for a walk in her shoes, gardening where slaves were once forced to grow poison ivy for a president whom the world now praises in all his whitewashed glory: For obvious reasons, my life…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s be real here, whales probably have more culture than you. What are you doing in Indiana, New York skyscraper ruins? Don’t worry, we figured out what the weird ancient bison was. All I really want is to live in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Emily Barton
Emily Barton discusses dieselpunk, genderqueer magic, and the collaboration between reader and writer in her latest novel, The Book of Esther.
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Check out the Latest Trends In “Trashion
Like a perverse turtle, Rob Greenfield wears his trash on his back: Sandwiched between heavy duty plastic sheeting is every wrapper, bag, tissue and twisty tie the environmental activist has accumulated over the past few weeks. His unusual garb is…
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Standing with Standing Rock
colonizers can’t seem to grasp this reality indigenous resistance isn’t protest or disruption or civil unrest indigenous resistance is ceremony At Lit Hub, Demian DinéYazhi’ writes a poem of anguish and solidarity with the anti-pipeline movement at Standing Rock.
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Dylan’s Controversial Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Literature went to Bob Dylan this year, sparking debate around the songwriter’s legacy and whether song lyrics should be considered poetry. Those in the pro camp attribute the win to the persistent singularity of Dylan’s songwriting, in combination with…
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If at First You Don’t Succeed
Comic artist and writer Mike Norton is doing alright. After working on various titles for DC (Queen & Country, Gravity, Runaways, The All-New Atom, Green Arrow/Black Canary), in 2011 he launched his webcomic Battlepug. In 2012, Battlepug won an Eisner…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington on her new collection Primitive and critiquing the use of “primitive” to describe African American folk art.
