This Week in Independent Bookstores
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2017
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The agony of deciding whether or not to evacuate. Everyone loves a Venus probe. So much American road trip photography. There is always time for unbuilt NYC. A visual history…
Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Alice Anderson’s Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
His goal was to erase me.
Finding the Finally: Alice Anderson Discusses Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
Alice Anderson on her memoir, Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away, drag, and motherhood.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Zhiyu/Jerry
Here is the genuine article: a young, American man, who expects the things he wants to come quickly, with just a word, a smile. So be it.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you have the resources, today would be a great day to donate to the American Red Cross. Speaking of: understanding what made Houston so vulnerable. Meet Florence, the giant…
Analyzing the Why: A Conversation with Jonathan Reiss
Jonathan Reiss discusses his debut novel Getting Off, his transition from actor to writer, his own past drug use, and our country's current opioid epidemic.
Notable Twin Cities: 8/27–9/2
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway through 2017
A list of Rumpus editors' favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful.