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Notable Chicago 12/1–12/7
Sunday 12/1: It’s the last night of Here’s the Story for 2013, and it’s a doozy. For this year end celebration, they ditch the open mic portion and have a lineup of audience-selected favorites. Come out for the usual potluck,…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Here it is: the NYTimes 100 Notable Books. The Times Literary Supplement includes Rick Whitaker’s An Honest Ghost, published by Seattle indie Jaded Ibis, among their Best Ofs. And an eclectic, timeless list from BookRiot. Famous authors on whether the symbolism…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers
Author Rachel DeWoskin talks with her father-in-law, educator, writer, and activist Bill Ayers, about the private man behind the mythos and demonization of his public persona.
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Barbara Berman’s 2nd Annual Holiday Book Column
I love it when well known people agree with me, especially when they time it to go with a piece I am working on. Super-agent Andrew Wylie did just that, taking on Amazon in an interview in The New Republic…
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Saturday Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Lydia Kiesling reviews Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Notable NYC: 11/30–12/6
Saturday 11/30: Indies First is a nationwide celebration of independent bookstores launched by author Sherman Alexie to support small businesses. Independent bookstores around New York City invited some of their favorite authors for appearances: John Bemelmans Marciano, Emma Straub, Tim…
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A Brighter Word than Bright: Keats at Work By Dan Beachy-Quick
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Brighter Word than Bright: Keats at Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The New York Comics Symposium: Brendan Leach and Nick Sousanis
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Songs of Our Lives: Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”
Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” begins at four in the morning, an hour usually armed with drunken reverie, but occasionally visited on insomniac nights, leaving you with nothing to do but to send search parties into the shadowed rivers of…
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Video Poetry: The Third Form
Erica Goss evaluates book trailers for poetry collections over on Connotation Press’ site in a series on video poetry.
