Why I Chose Barbara Jane Reyes’s Invocation to Daughters for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
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Album of the Week: St. Vincent’s MASSEDUCTION
"You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record."
Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from I, Parrot
An exclusive excerpt from I, Parrot, by Deb Olin Unferth & Elizabeth Haidle, forthcoming from Catapult and Black Balloon on November 1.
Notable Philadelphia: 10/17–10/23
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
Mothers and Marginalization: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
Writing, art, and creation are elevated and pure, the book seems to say, spiritual acts separated from the dross of everyday life.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Photographing Brutalist Belgrade. So you’re trying to avoid being buried alive. It’s always a good day for capybaras. Let us now discuss fish depression. I want to go to Pacific Ocean…
You Are Nowhere
Didn’t he see what I saw: how a person could survive the unthinkable and still be broken by something as soft and uncertain as loneliness?
What We’re Reading in November!
No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions more homeless.
STRIPPERDADDY
My thoughts hovered above the scene pondering the reasons why and time felt like the waves of a puddle lapping against cracked asphalt.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Come with me to the island of the colorblind. Don’t worry, the cops in Dubai are getting hoverbikes, seems fine. The world is dying so might as well enjoy some…