Notable San Francisco: 1/11–1/17
Wednesday 1/11: Passages on the Lake (hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts) presents Daphne Gottlieb, Sonya Renee Taylor, Tracey Knapp, Derrick Carr, and Haldane King. Free, 7 p.m., The Terrace Room. Shanthi…
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This Week in Essays
At Catapult, Toni Jensen writes a mesmerizing narrative of documenting assault and human trafficking intermixed with her experiences at Standing Rock and facing threats of violence. At Hazlitt, Aparita Bhandari examines…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe there were, like, tons of moons. Lebanon’s racist, gendered architecture. Isn’t it time the dolphins started to protect themselves (or their smaller relatives). Let’s hear it for overpasses and…
The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.
The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: Jaswinder Bolina
Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today's poems are from Jaswinder Bolina.
Writers Resist: #LouderTogether
This Sunday, January 15, 2 p.m., PEN America hosts the flagship New York City event of a national rallying effort under the banner of WRITERS RESIST. This literary protest will bring…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chris Santiago
Chris Santigo on his new collection Tula, writing a multilingual text, and the connections between music and writing poetry.
Weekly Geekery
Lizard brain, meet the one-sentence novel. Sea slugs: the key to why you’ll remember this article. Are millenials “empty inside”? New books reveal the truth!
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Instead of yelling at a cloud, one curmudgeonly old man runs a bookstore. Another curmudgeonly bookseller has taken to charging browsers a fifty-pence fee for looking at merchandise in his…
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
Lawrence Lenhart reviews The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A look inside LAX’s new anti-terrorism facilities. (2017 everybody!) How about a look inside a very old pencil factory instead (I’m sorry this text is in German). Pickles: what’s up…
Spotlight: “Good Grief” by Janice Shapiro
"Good Grief" is a chapter out of a graphic memoir that tells the story of a life through its author's many crushes.