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The Gift of Understanding
Author and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton is featured on Brain Pickings for her new book, Meanwhile in San Francisco: A City in its Own Words. MacNaughton’s beautiful illustrations remind us of the importance of community, and an essential message: [T]here is…
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Notable Los Angeles 3/24–3/30
Monday 3/24: Rachel Hollis presents and signs Party Girl. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 3/25: Red Hen Press presents a reading by John Barr and Nate Barr. 6:30 p.m. at the Annenberg Community Beach House. The event is free,…
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As Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni
Will Glovinsky reviews AS FLIES TO WHATLESS BOYS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The How and Why of Reading
Writing “in defense of reading” essays is an outmoded literary form. Leo Robson points out in an examination of a slew of new books that reading, unlike other pastimes such as smoking, is generally considered a healthy pursuit. Since nobody…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news criminals: now police can reconstruct faces using DNA. Tardigrades are pretty much the best. Behold the Soviet house of tomorrow! The golden age of cassette design. Everything old is new again: two new colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in…
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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Rebecca Walker
Sari Botton and Rebecca Walker talk about the challenges of writing about parents, becoming estranged from them, and then moving together past estrangement, to eventually heal the rift.
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Next Sunday is a Book Reviews Extravaganza!
On March 30, The Sunday Rumpus will celebrate spring with a bang, making sure you are at no loss for reading material! Be sure to tune in to see a cornucopia of reviews from regular Rumpus reviewers, Anna March and…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Oneiric (another word I’ve never said)
Novelist and memoirist Cris Mazza deconstructs bravery, the function of dreaming–both canine and human–and a lost-love rekindled after 25 years.
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Undercastle by Feliz Lucia Molina
Kate Schapira reviews Feliz Lucia Molina’s Undercastle today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Notable NYC: 3/22–3/28
Saturday 3/22: Ariel Gore reads from her new memoir, The End of Eve (February 2014). Bluestockings, 7 p.m., free. Rob Halpern and Ann Lauterbach join the Segue Series. Halpern’s collection Common Place is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Segue Series,…
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The Decline of Punctuation?!…
We live in a heyday of punctuation. “Call this what you will—exclamatory excess, punctuation inflation, the result of the Internet’s limitless expanse—it is everywhere,” writes Megan Garber at the Atlantic. But perhaps not for long—with the rise of image-based expression…
