The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #101: The Dardenne Brothers
Aware of The Bechdel Test or not, the Belgian brothers keep churning out movies that pass with flying colors.
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Congratulations on Publishing Your First Baby
As the old saying goes, making a baby takes two people, but delivering one takes a team.
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.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Surely the secret oasis under Antarctica will save us all! Won’t somebody think of the parasites? Lighthouses of North America (are nice). What is life but a sewer-clogging fatberg? Here…
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Franklin James Fisher’s “Rhoda”
I have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.
Notable San Francisco: 9/13–9/19
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On Taylor Swift, Medievalists, and what to do when the Nazis love you. Remember that time congress worked to make antibiotics ineffective? Fare thee well Cassini. The best mysteries involve…
The Logic of the Book: Talking with Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich discusses The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, the importance of narrative structure, and the difference between facts and stories.
Album of the Week: Forced Witness by Alex Cameron
"Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?"
Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.