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Notable Los Angeles 11/18–11/24
Monday 11/18: Joshua Safran presents FREE SPIRIT: Growing Up on the Road and Off the Grid. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe. Jarett Kobek discusses and signs BTW. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tuesday 11/19: The Moth presents Interference.…
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The Rumpus Review of 12 Years A Slave
In 12 Years a Slave, a period piece transforms into drama without distance and intellectual arguments about slavery’s connection to the present.
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A Father’s Striking Photos of His Autistic Son
In the vein of Naoki Hagoshida’s The Reason I Jump (and David Mitchell’s Guardian essay), photographer Timothy Archibald created a breathtaking series of portraits of his autistic son Elijah. Archibald originally started taking the photos “so he could show them to behavioral specialists,”…
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The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Scott Onak reviews Fiona MacFarlane’s THE NIGHT GUEST today in The Rumpus Reviews.
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RIP Doris Lessing
Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing passed away in her London home at the age of 94. The 11th woman to ever win the Nobel, Lessing broke ground with both the form and the content of books like The Golden Notebook, Children of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Would anyone like to join me on a road trip to find all the forgotten arrows pointing across America? Did you know that Galapagos tortoises can have 1,360 babies in their lifetimes? On the origins of Red Riding Hood (they…
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The Big Idea: Fady Joudah
Suzanne Koven speaks to Palestinian American physician and poet Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context, and the marginalization of the “other” in the literary world.
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Cutie And The Boxer, November 25
Monday, November 25 at 8pm, The Rumpus will be hosting a free screening of our favorite movie of the year, Cutie And The Boxer, in the screening room at Videology.
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Notable Chicago 11/17–11/23
It’s a tough call this week. Most days feature two fantastic events happening concurrently. Choose wisely! Sunday 11/17: Sunday Salon features its monthly prose reading series at Black Rock Pub. Features include Don De Grazia, Tony Trigilio, Catherine Theis, and…
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Lit-Link Round-up
I want a girl who reads. “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” by Ariel Levy. Brace yourself. And brace yourself in an entirely different way for what the big publishing looks like on the inside. Enter the Indie Writer Deathmatch. Okay, personally I’d…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan’s stories are snapshots. Stark vignettes. We see her characters in the middle of conflict, just at the moment of their potential undoing. In Rohan’s collection, Goodnight Nobody, she assembles thirty short stories that show each character walking a…
