Notable Twin Cities: 7/9-7/15
Sunday 7/9: Carolyn Porter will be signing copies of her book Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate. Barnes and Noble Roseville, 2 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/11: It’s Books &…
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Notable NYC: 7/8–7/14
Sunday 7/9: Rachel Lyon, Gordon Harber, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, and host Madeline Stevens join Sundays at Erv’s. Erv’s, 6 p.m., free. Monday 7/10: Jami Attenberg, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Courtney Maum, Elizabeth Crane,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Spend your weekend dreaming of George Barris’s ridiculous custom cars. Look at this megamouth shark! I repeat: LOOK AT THIS MEGAMOUTH SHARK! You know what else is great? Osaka Expo…
The Storming Bohemian #34: Descent into the Underworld
The last time I punked the muse, I wrote of the summer solstice, a meditation into the heart of the sun. My goal was to leave behind the ever-more-depressing news…
What to Read When You Are a Girl in This Garbage-Fire World
Our voices are our weapons, and in these books, young women speak, shout, and scream the truths that you are not alone, you are not forgotten, and you are not done fighting.
This Week in Short Fiction
This week, the latest issue of Gulf Coast has a new Carmen Maria Machado short story about body acceptance—or, rather, the opposite. In “Eight Bites,” a woman decides to undergo…
Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang
Precariousness is an essential condition of life for the people who populate Vang’s poems, especially the Hmong refugees on whom the poet’s eye most lovingly lingers.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sure seems like Amelia Earhart actually survived and was captured. It’s Friday so let’s talk about (how your brain reacts to) weed. Time for one last look around the BBC’s…
A Specific Kind of Loneliness: In Conversation with Geeta Kothari
Geeta Kothari discusses her debut collection, American xenophobia, and the immigrant narrative.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #91: Meghan Lamb
Author Meghan Lamb‘s new novel, Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, March 2017), is a book that cuts to the core of disturbance. In it, a woman is struck by an…
#SuicideGirls: Why I Teach Sylvia Plath
But let’s not forget: feminism is, at least in part, about choice, and portions of life are play, not politics. Play and relationships and creativity and whatever we want.