October 2016
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Howard Stern’s Tribute to Revolver
The radio personality has put together a tribute to his favorite Beatles album, featuring a wide array of artists covering Revolver’s track list. According to Rolling Stone, the episode features: Cheap Trick tackling “She Said She Said,” James Taylor performing “Here, There and Everywhere” and Nathaniel Rateliff &…
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Lover as Audience, Twitter as Community
At Electric Literature, poet and critic K. Thomas Khan walks through the unraveling of a relationship, deliberate isolation from online life, and the questions both raise in a lyrical, longform piece that pushes and pulls at the concepts of personal and…
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Always Neglected
You may see life all over the place. You may guess at things that are dying so fast… Lit Hub shares some really lovely aphorisms written by the great surrealist René Magritte, from the new volume Selected Writings out from…
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Meaty on TV
Cable television channel FX has purchased Meaty, a comedy series based on Samantha Irby’s memoir of the same title. Developed by Irby, Jessi Klein (head writer for Inside Amy Schumer, author of You’ll Get Over It), and Abbi Jacobson (Broad City,…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/3–10/9
Monday 10/3: Along with Phoneme Media, McSweeney’s, and the Black Mountain Institute, *readings* is proud to announce: A Celebration of Recent Work in Translation. Featuring conversation and readings by Hossein Abkenar, Rocío Cerón, and Olja Savičević. 7 p.m. at a…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Philip Roughton translates Icelandic writer Oddný Eir’s mirage-filled meditation on coming-of-age. Eir describes haunting images that float beneath her consciousness and in her dreams. Then, Brandon Hicks illustrates the happy story of the girl who first created…
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Stylistically Tortuous
If you can grope your way through late James, you’ll find you have moved out of the Victorian era into the modern and, beyond that, into what we have come to refer to as the postmodern. Over at the Smart…
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The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs
Rebecca Hussey reviews The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs today in Rumpus Books.
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Thank You, Editors
For Hazlitt, Steven Price writes a beautiful elegy to his former editor, Ellen Seligman. Seligman and Price collaborated on Price’s By Gaslight, published in August, five months after Seligman’s passing. Editing, at its highest level, is surely a creative act.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In honor of the High Holy Days let’s talk about the Jewish American accent. A bit of good news: Measles are gone from the Americas (but please don’t mess this up by not vaccinating). We’re so close to Jurassic Park being…
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The Rumpus Interview with Bronwen Dickey
Bronwen Dickey discusses Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, her examination of one of the most feared dog breeds, how the media changes perceptions, and what Eliza Doolittle might have to say about this.
