Fetishizing Distress: The Wrong Light and Sex Trafficking
Josie Swantek Heitz’s and Dave Adams’s The Wrong Light, theatrically released in NYC through Cinema Guild on July 14, is disturbing on several levels. First, there’s the story itself. The…
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Notable San Francisco: 7/26–8/1
Wednesday 7/26: Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection, The Dark Dark, with Clary Sankey. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Andrew Sean Greer is launching his new novel, Less. Free,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I mean who DOESN’T love a brain in a jar? Maybe decreasing sperm counts is what will finally doom us? We could all stand to learn a thing or two…
A Poethead’s Guide to the Galaxy: Talking with David Hernandez
David Hernandez discusses his most recent poetry collection, Dear, Sincerely, working across multiple genres, and why the act of making anything is a kind of optimism.
Rumpus Original Poetry: “PatRIOT” by Xavier Cavazos
When all gods are dead & Allah means the same as Christ on the Cross / & Christ on the Cross means the same as detonation—
Album of the Week: Mellow Waves by Cornelius
Cornelius is the alter ego of the legendary Japanese composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. Twenty years after releasing their iconic album Fantasma in 1997, and putting an end to…
Notable Philadelphia: 7/25–7/31
Tuesday 7/25: Tattooed Momedy Comedy Showcase. 8 p.m. at Tattooed Mom. Wednesday 7/26: Excuse My Dust. Featuring: Berry Grass, Chris Davis, and Matthew Schmid. 7 p.m. at Good Good Comedy, $5. Shakespeare…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Take a moment of your day to remember the dearly departed Microsoft Paint. Future cities rising from the past. Here come the self-driving ships. Don’t worry, ticks are doing GREAT.…
Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock
Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.
I, Me, We, and the GOP
It’s not coincidental, I think, that most of the secular and sacred saints we venerate now went charging against the grain of the Municipal We.
Notable Los Angeles: 7/24–7/30
Monday 7/24: Jimmy Webb discusses and signs The Cake and The Rain: A Memoir. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. 90×90 presents Drunken Masters: TV. With Julie Plec, Beth Schacter, Bronwyn Garrity,…
