Notable Chicago: 2/10–2/16
Friday 2/10: The Odes for You tour, featuring Shira Erlichman and Angel Nafis, comes to Women & Children First! 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 2/11: Sho Sugita reads from his translation…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to go everybody, the Antifa are officially the most reasonable people around. TBH no one has any idea how tall Everest is anymore. Here’s your 1950s Cub Scout diary for…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jason Diamond
Jason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #70: Jean Conner
Jean Conner was married to Bruce Conner from 1957 until his death in 2008. As a result, she tends to be overshadowed by her husband’s larger than life reputation as…
The Girl on the Bike
First, we must recognize our removal from the machinations of the shadows. The screen stands between us and the internal world depicted on it. There is no communion.
Song of the Day: “Gin House Blues”
Nina Simone’s troubles were highlighted in the recent gripping documentary by Liz Garbus, What Happened, Miss Simone? Though Simone had her fair share of challenges, it was her incredibly resonant voice…
Notable Portland: 2/9–2/15
Thursday 2/9: Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Gin Closet, reads from her latest work for the Reed College Visiting Writers Series. Eliot Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free. In…
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson
Chris Vaughan reviews Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start your day right, with ten hours of ambient Arctic noises. What is life but a 90s Taco Bell interior? I repeat, Sunny the red panda is still at large.…
Albums of Our Lives: Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight
Something about the twangy banjo and the melancholy vocals just made me feel less alone. And I hated being alone.
Visit Us at AWP!
If you’re at AWP this week, please stop by and say hi! We’re tables 433 and 434 at the bookfair, and we’ll be ready to fulfill all your Rumpus merchandise needs…