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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
Congratulations to the 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Recipients!
The Whiting Foundation's Creative Nonfiction Grant is in its second year and seeks to acknowledge the creation of exemplary works of nonfiction.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you’re able, Northern California fire victims could use your help. Jia Tolentino on Harvey Weinstein (is a thing you should read). Hey look at this lil dwarf planet’s lil ring! Let’s…
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Zola Jesus’s Natural World
About a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Whole World Is Desert
This is what I want him to think of me. The girl poised to surf a wave under the heaviness of the full moon, the ocean around her radiant with light.
Notable San Francisco: 10/11–10/17
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The world is bleak and scary so here is a story about some bears breaking into a pizza place. Picturing China’s anti-desertification project. Guess what? We’ve pretty much poisoned all…
Nothing Foreign about It: Talking with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
"The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B."
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf, finding community in poetry, books on craft, and mining the supernatural for poems.