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Notable Chicago: 10/30–11/5
Friday 10/30: Purchase The Secret Chord to join author Geraldine Brooks for a reading at the Swedish History Museum. Hosted by Women & Children First at 7 p.m. BYOB to a zine release and eerie film screening, hosted by Vicky…
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Alain Bourget: A Rumpus Roundup
Associate professor Alain Bourget refused to assign his students the $180 textbook recommended by the department at the University of California at Fullerton because he found an alternative that cost half as much. Unfortunately, unlike the more expensive book, the…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Upright Beasts
In stories ranging from the naturalistic to the allegorical, Michel’s characters light out for the territory—or else they burrow further in.
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New Dylan Thomas Poem, Fresh Off the Presses
It’s the literary equivalent of a lost Beatles track. In 1942, Dylan Thomas published a poem in Lilliput magazine. Shortly thereafter, the magazine went defunct, and its archives were acquired by “the late porn baron Paul Raymond.” Today, the poem…
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The Ruined Elegance by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Christina Cook reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s The Ruined Elegance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Writing In Another Dimension
Edison floods the world with light; biologists discover germs and defy Death; botanists grow tropical plants in Parisian glass-houses and affront Nature with hot-house orchids; the phonograph and the cinema fold Time and Space for the masses. And for some…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kate Bolick
Kate Bolick talks about her new book, Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, writing and the nuclear family, and whether women are finally people yet.
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Evil Working for Good
How a culture of goblins and ghouls led to the revival of a small Midwestern town.
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The Influence of the Author Photo
There’s a moment not often talked about in the reading process: turning to the cover flap and seeing the face of the story’s creator. It’s a reminder that the story didn’t appear out of thin air, that a real flesh-and-bones…
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Books for Pennies
Are the stories on pages of the books we love actually worth something in a monetary sense? If you ask sellers of bargain books, they may tell you those books are worth only cents on the dollar. Join the race…
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The (Limited) Info on Bowie’s Next Album
The iconic artist cleared up the rumors about his upcoming record by specifying that it will not be related to any sound clips that were circulating this weekend, will not part of his theater production Lazarus, and adding little else. Bowie confirmed…
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Digital World, Digital Library
Why do we need physical libraries in the age of Wikipedia? What does a library look like in the digital age? The New York Review of Books explains how librarians are embracing technology.