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2017
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you just need to watch a beaver herd some cows. Don’t love linking to the Sun, DO love talking about Russia’s secret Arctic base. As long as we’re staying…
VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas discusses her debut novel, The Hate U Give, landing an agent on Twitter, and why she trusts teenagers more than the publishing industry.
National Poetry Month Day 18: Collestipher Dodge Chatto
Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today.
Album of the Week: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.
With rumors and speculation about another new record dropping on the second Coachella weekend flying, Kendrick Lamar’s fourth studio album DAMN. (out via TDE/ Interscope) has already established itself as…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka discusses his new collection Map to the Stars, writing about poverty in contemporary poetry, and how racism maintains its place in our society.
Why I Chose Nikki Wallschlaeger’s Crawlspace for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I’m always interested in the work of poets who use form in subversive ways, and while it’s true that the sonnet has long ceased to be just a love song,…
Notable Philadelphia: 4/18–4/24
Tuesday 4/18: Rasheedah Phillips reads from her new novella, The Telescoping Effect, Pt. 1. 7 p.m. at The Wooden Shoe. Dark Night: Philadelphia Premiere with Tim Sutton in attendance. 7:30 p.m.…
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A Jordanian bookseller opened a 24-hour “Emergency Room for the Mind” that offers life-affirming literature. One Seattle-area bookstore thinks to the key to success is more competition and is seeking out a…
Living Outside the Narrative in Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
The Idiot dramatizes the alienation, and even heartbreak, of losing the narrative thread of your existence.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future is all drone made carbon fiber moth webs. But spiders do a pretty good job too. Isn’t it time for deep sea tourism though? Searching the stars for…
The Dark Heart of America: On David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann's new book Killers of the Flower Moon explores the 1920s murders of the Osage tribe, the making of the FBI, and is a reminder of the all too recent history of betrayals that comprise America’s dark heart.