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Debut Album from The Unspeakable Practices
The Unspeakable Practices were born out of a project formed by writer Rick Moody, who has a new novel coming out shortly (and a music column here at The Rumpus), and Kid Millions of Oneida, Man Forever, and Soldiers of…
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Notable Chicago: 11/6–11/12
Friday 11/6: 2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award Winners Edward Hamlin (Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories) and Charles Haverty (Excommunicados) read selections from their respective works. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Women & Children First celebrates the launch of…
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The Rumpus and Electric Literature Present: It’s Too Cold for This!
The Rumpus and Electric Literature are excited to present IT’S TOO COLD FOR THIS, a holiday reading!
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How to Get More Lit By Cuban Authors on US Campuses
It’s a bear to try to get contemporary Cuban literature, especially by women. To remedy the dearth of books written by female Cuban authors on American campuses, Sara Cooper, a professor of Spanish and multicultural and gender studies at Chico…
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The Unromantic Realities of Book Publishing
Books make being an editorial assistant seem pretty glamorous. Meghan Daum discusses the unromantic realities of being an editorial assistant in book publishing, in an excerpt from the new reprint of her essay collection My Misspent Youth: To the dewy…
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I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Softer Side of the Church of Satan
Throughout the Panic, one group was turned to again and again as the best evidence that the Devil had droves of organized followers: the Church of Satan. Read an excerpt from The Believer‘s interview with the High Priest of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Every bit of new dinosaur news bring my worst fears closer and closer to reality. Today’s nightmare of the day is finding giant tapeworm cancer in your brain. Architectures of the afterlife. On a similar note: the failed therapeutic architecture…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta talks about her debut novel, Under the Udala Trees, her upcoming appearance at Portland’s Wordstock book festival, and LGBTQ rights in America and worldwide.
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Medicinal Literature
Electric Literature posted a conversation with author Sandra Cisneros, in which she talks about books and their healing power, and the importance of poetry today: This is a time for poetry. Poets are the ones who are always called to speak the…
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On Writing While in Prison
Over at Hazlitt, Sarah Gerard interviews Matthew Seger, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison, and reveals what it’s like to keep up a writing discipline behind bars: Before, if I wanted to write something down, I’d scribble…
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Dave Davies on Inspiration
The Kinks’s Dave Davies took a minute out of his Ripping Up New York City tour to talk to LA Record about inspiration. “It’s a kind of process—I find melancholery really really useful,” Davies said. “It’s a way of remembering…