Next Letter for Kids: Leslie Margolis (And Signed Book Giveaway!)
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2017
1853 posts
Watching the World End: A History of The Weather Channel
[A]ll this sensationalism has made The Weather Channel, inadvertently and ever increasingly, the essential television viewing experience of the Anthropocene.
Notable San Francisco: 10/4–10/10
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
The Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to… Kenny G
Rumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Ta-Nehesi Coates reminds you: civil rights protests are never popular at the time. What is life but a Pittsburgh parking attendant booth? Constructivist puppets (I’m sorry this is in German).…
Death, Satan, and Cats: A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.
Album of the Week: Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
AROMANTICISM is a new vision of songwriting, a trip into contemporary loneliness, and proof that, nowadays, every man is an island.
The Last Poem I Loved: “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje
How different the world of the poem was from Saudi culture, which draped me in black and insisted, it often seemed, on One Truth.
Notable Philadelphia: 10/3–10/9
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.
Between Autonomy and Powerlessness: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Women’s bodies signify so much, both to ourselves and others, that inhabiting them and having ownership over them often feel like two different states of being.