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Notable Chicago 10/27–11/2
Sunday 10/27: Every week, you’re invited to join poets and spectators alike for the Uptown Poetry Slam. This is where slam poetry began and where it continues to grow. 7 PM, $6, The Green Mill. Monday 10/28: If you’ve been…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Veronica’s Teeth
“…people like us made our own destruction. We suicide-bombed our own lives.”
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Lit-Link Round-up
Unveiling the new dates/site/faculty for Other Voices Querétaro, the writing program I run out of Mexico. Come join us June 27-July 6, with a hotbed of Rumpus alum faculty: Cecil Castellucci, Rob Roberge, Emily Rapp, Stacy Bierlein, and of course…
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Notable NYC 10/26–11/1
Saturday 10/26: Junot Diaz comes to the Brooklyn Library to discuss his short story collection This is How You Lose Her (September 2012). As with all Diaz events, expect large crowds. Central Library, Dweck Center, 4pm, free. Joan Retallack reads…
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Coming Close: Forty Essays About Philip Levine Edited by Edited by Mari L’esperance & Tomas Q Morin
Barbara Berman reviews Coming Close: Forty Essaya About Philip Levine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: Unpeeling
I placed my nose on your left shoulder and my eyes instantly welled up with tears.
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NY Comics Symposium: Aaron Beebe & Phil Nel
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 from 7 to 9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Storytelling And Death With Peter Orner
“All stories are inherently suspect. You know that old, dumb crafty term: Reliable narrator? Show me a truly reliable narrator…Does one exist? Tom Brokaw? We’re all unreliable all the time. And I think storytellers should always go too far. In the story…
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Albums of Our Lives: Moxy Früvous’s Bargainville
What did I turn to when I needed to channel my frustration with this corporatized Republican state against which I could only kick my small angry feet? The music of Gen-Xers from another country.
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The 50 Scariest Books Of All Time!
Just in time for Halloween, Flavorwire has compiled a list of the 50 scariest books of all time (with cover art)! The list includes the requisite additions of Stephen King and Richard Matheson, but also literary masters like Margaret Atwood…
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10 Tips On Writing From Joyce Carol Oates
Write your heart out. The first sentence can be written only after the last sentence has been written. FIRST DRAFTS ARE HELL. FINAL DRAFTS, PARADISE. You are writing for your contemporaries — not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your…
