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Notable Chicago 11/24–11/30
Sunday 11/24: The Chicago Book Expo is taking over St. Augustine College! Come spend the day listening to authors of all stripes (including Rumpus favorites Sam Irby, Dimitry Samarov, Martha Bayne, and Aleksander Hemon) talk about their passions and projects. Buy…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ruptured
I think about that night a lot, how I knew the ambulance was coming for us. Call me Magic, if you want. I won’t object. Who doesn’t want to be called Magic? Was it magic or do we always know…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Flavorwire’s 50 Books that define the last 5 years in literature. It’s a hell of a list. If you’re getting online for the first time in a week, National Book Awards winners announced. Edan Lepucki on magazine editors’ 50 Shades…
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Notable NYC: 11/23–11/29
Saturday 11/23: Ossian Foley, Krystal Languell and Jamie Townsend read poetry. Foley’s first collection OF: Vol 1 includes experimental styles focused on discord and the relationship of structure. Unnameable Books, 7p.m., free. Sunday 11/24: Jonathan Ames, Jessamyn Hope, Heather Aimee O’Neill,…
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Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin
Antonia Clark reviews Lynn Levin’s Miss Plastique today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The New York Comics Symposium: T. Edward Bak
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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Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journals
“Dear God, I don’t want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. My dear God, how stupid we people are until You give us something Dear Lord, please make me want you. Can’t anyone teach me how to…
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A Love Song for Isaac Fitzgerald
Our dear friend and co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York for his spiffy new job as Buzzfeed Books editor. Dan Weiss (of Morning Coffee fame) and his band the Yellow Dress wrote a song to send Isaac off…
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“I am Malala” Book Banned
The LA Times reported this week that sixteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai’s memoir I Am Malala, has been banned from over 40,000 schools in her native country of Pakistan. The book (co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb) describes Malala’s transformation into a vocal…
