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Notable Los Angeles: 2/13–2/19
Monday 2/13: Stephen Kinzer discusses and signs The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. How to Write Romance: A…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Chelsea Hicks Bryan’s lyric essay “The Living Wound” remembers those who sacrificed, whose painful deaths fertilize the earth and our world around us to forever fill…
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ruth Joffre reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We all need a little vintage satanism from time to time. Admittedly we should probably all be living in earthship houses. Envisioning the Europa lander. Here are all of the…
The Rumpus Interview with Jon Day
Jon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as "a technology for living."
Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Five Poems by Jan-Henry Gray
Dry-mouthed, standing shoulder to shoulder, / They watch the carousel spit out black bags / And mumble "not mine" over and over.
Notable NYC: 2/11–2/17
Saturday 2/11: Immigrant Rally: Here to Stay. Washington Square Park, 2 p.m., free. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi and Jennifer Scappettone join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 2/12:…
This Week in Short Fiction
This week, C Pam Zhang has a flash fiction story at The Offing that is maybe about vampires but probably about girls, Chinese girls in particular. “Are They Vampires, or…
Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave
The threat of perfunctory conversation looms. Raza reaches for his headphones, but it is too late. The man is already talking to him.