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Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves: Seeking a Saint in the Heart of a War Zone
I have so many questions for Cruz. Does she know the whole story about this painting? Did she attend catechism and Mass at Tía Zenaida’s house? Does she know why we took the painting from Las Nieves?
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Ernest Hemingway Was…
You may have seen the recent series of UN Women ads using screenshots of Google auto-complete suggestions to educate viewers about sexist stereotypes. This Book Riot post does the same thing but with famous authors—for example, when you type in “Ernest…
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“Black Eyes and Oozing Bullet Wounds”
Liz Wyckoff’s interview with Laura van den Berg for Tin House is a nice complement to our own. They talk about cohesion in short-story collections, faraway settings, and van den Berg’s collection of ceramic Loch Ness monsters. A preview: …the women…
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Goodbye to…Earth-Shattering Sex?
The Atlantic gave the Rumpus’s own Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed a chance to delve deeper into their contributions to the anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.” In a roundtable discussion with…
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How do you dramatise writing poetry?
The Economist blog has a Q&A with John Krokidas, the writer/director of Kill Your Darlings, a film about Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Carr.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #211
HUNGER FIRE ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Hunger Fire.
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Notable SF: 12/9–12/15
Monday 12/9: Author Jonathan Franzen comes to the Bookshop Santa Cruz to discuss and sign copies of his new book,The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus. Free, 7 p.m. Tuesday 12/10: InsideStorytime THE FIX features Joe Clifford (Junkie Love), Zarina…
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The Remarkable Life of China’s “AIDS Granny”
In the 1980s, when it became apparent that HIV was blood-borne, China banned blood donations from outside the country—but instituted no other HIV-related tests or regulations, not even against reusing needles. HIV quickly began to spread among those giving and receiving…
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Notable Los Angeles 12/9–12/15
Monday 12/9: Write Club Los Angeles presents Chapter 20: FUCK XMAS. Featuring Jane Morris, Mike O’Connell, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Marcia Wilkie, Brian Jude Leahy, and Jay Cramer. Hosted by Paula Killen and Justin Welborn. 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. $5-$20,…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If your fingers aren’t too frozen to click, here’s the weekend Rumpus roundup. First, our film editor Anisse Gross reviewed Hilton Als’s new book White Girls: Each time I took it out of my bag, people glanced at me wide-eyed, as…
