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How you can help La Luz
Seattle surf-rock female quartet La Luz was involved in serious car accident last Tuesday night. The band was en route to a sold-out hometown show as part of their tour with Of Montreal when they were rear-ended by a large…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is the secret troll that protected the Bay Bridge (for a while). 80s mall photos are pretty sweet huh? How much does Twitter owe you? (It owes us $11,860). What do last names tell us about upward mobility? And…
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The Rumpus Interview with Masha Hamilton
Journalist and novelist Masha Hamilton sits down with Maud Newton to discuss the influences behind her latest book, What Changes Everything, the intricacies of writing about conflict, and how her work in war zones has helped shape her fiction.
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Notable Chicago 11/10–11/16
Sunday 11/10: Join hosts J.H. Palmer and Angela Benander for That’s All She Wrote, the west side’s favorite BYOB storytelling show. This month’s featured storytellers include Angelina Marie, Xavier Retana, Marta Johnson, and Jasmine Davila. 8 PM, Free, Swim Cafe.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Congrats to Rumpus co-owner (and boy meteor) Isaac Fitzgerald, new books editor at BuzzFeed. Can you drink like Dorothy Parker? “In my experience, there are about a dozen submissives for every true dominant…you’d think that most people would rather be…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Happy Birthday
I was in the bathroom of a CVS with my best friend, Kaitlyn, when I first discovered I was pregnant.
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Notable NYC: 11/9–11/15
Saturday 11/9: The Comic Arts Festival features guest speakers, indie publishers, and self-published comic zines. Mt. Carmel Church -and- The Knitting Factory, 11am to 7pm, free. Colum McCann reads from his novel Transatlantic (June 2013), presented by Community Bookstore. Brooklyn…
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The Black Clock 17 Launch!
Hey Los Angeles Rockers! Sunday night is the launch and reading event of Black Clock, issue 17 and you know you want to be there. Come see readings by: Cecil Castellucci, Rumpus contributor Antonia Crane, Dayna Dunne, Brian Evenson, and Andrew…
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The New York Comics Symposium: Amy Kurzweil & Charlie Boatner
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 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
