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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…
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Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
Stacie Williams reviews Allie Brosh’s HYPERBOLE AND A HALF today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Stockholm Syndrome of Sexual Assault
For Slate, Amanda Hess examines yet another first-person confessional: sexual assault victim Jenny Kutner’s essay “The Other Side of the Story,” published in Texas Monthly. The power of Kutner’s story is that it lends insight into a particular type of victimization—the kind…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being executed. Medieval diseased…
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Dixon
The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.
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Notable Chicago 12/8–12/14
Sunday 12/8: The Uptown Poetry Slam keeps up its weekly schedule. Stop in early for the open mic, and then stay late for the slam itself. 7 p.m., $6, The Green Mill. Monday 12/9: It’s a busy week for The Moth. They kick…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Valentine’s Day
It was only one meal after all and what could go wrong? The answer was simple. Me.
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Lit-Link Round-Up
The Airship Advent Calendar: author trivia daily. Guy Intoci of Dzanc Books acquires Patrick O’Neil’s memoir, already out in France–congrats on both ends. Powerful essay,”Air Hunger,” by Angela Giles Patel, over at Sunday Rumpus pal Jennifer Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station. I…
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The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson
Camden Avery reviews Emily Dickinson’s The Gorgeous Nothings today in Rumpus Poetry.
