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Notable Los Angeles: 1/5–1/11
Happy 2015, readers! It’s a new year, and with it comes all new books and book events. Enjoy! Monday 1/5: Charles Hobbs, Michael Locke, and Vincent Brooke present and sign Silverlake Chronicles & Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Julie Marie Wade reviews the “solar system” of Kimberly Burwick’s poetry collection, Good Night Brother. The son—or “sun”—in the title “burns everyone and everything it touches.” He/it “has gone the way of the supernova.” This lovable, yet hard-to-love character…
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The Mark Zuckerberg Book Club
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new book club, and it already has 80,000 members. Some people are hoping Facebook’s reach will make this a powerful tool akin to Oprah’s book club, once known for driving tens of thousands in…
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Surrendering Oz by Bonnie Friedman
David Weinstein reviews Surrendering Oz by Bonnie Friedman today in Rumpus Books.
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Strange Brews
As the associate art director at Knopf, Chip Kidd’s the man when it comes to book covers. Over at the New Yorker, Ronald Kelts looks at Kidd’s latest project, Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library: Kidd designs books by James Ellroy,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to look at what could have been public domain this year. Just in time for a couple of days ago, on the origins of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. We have a lot to look forward to…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #61: Songs for the Alliterative at Heart
Michael Hearst has come a long way from the guy who played plastic wind instruments on Seventh Avenue, to an admirably creative and original adulthood.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Only Thing That Matters
The lake was moody, like us. It never looked the same; it was always changing its mind.
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Strange Things Have Happened Here
People of the Bay Area! Come to 826 Valencia on Sunday night at 6 p.m. for a good old-fashioned Rumpus shindig, featuring writers from the USA, Russia, and Iran. Details are here. With free drinks! Also, it is entirely possible…
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Notable NYC: 1/3–1/9
Monday 1/5: Jason Sokol and Brent Staples talk about All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free. Tuesday 1/6: Nellie Hermann discusses her novel The Season of Migration with Chris Adrian.…
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Good Night Brother by Kimberly Burwick
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kimberly Burwick’s Good Night Brother today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky on his new book, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Martson/Peter Comics, blogging, and reconciling feminism and bondage.