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Notable Los Angeles: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Shohreh Aghdashloo presents and signs The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/22: A release party for Two Dollar Radio‘s Frequencies #3, featuring readings by contributing authors Grace Krilanovich, Trinie Dalton, Sara…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
No, no, you have to stare at that one spot and kind of unfocus your eyes. Lean in a little closer and…there. Do you see it? It’s the weekend Rumpus roundup. On Saturday, Yumi Sakugawa gave us shivers with her…
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Notable NYC: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Novelist Jonathan Grimwood hosts Charlotte Druckman, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, and Matt Gross for an evening of storytelling focused on obsessions. Grimwood’s novel, The Last Banquet (October 2013), set in Enlightenment era Versailles, will inspire refreshments served by chef Emily Casey. Housing…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe we should all be doing LSD (no thanks). The goblin shark will haunt your dreams. Photographing Russia’s dying movie theaters. And then this skull had to come along and ruin everything. This state-by-state map of the most popular female…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman
Comedian, writer, and performer John Hodgman sits down with The Rumpus to chat about channeling Ayn Rand, his Secret Society shows, giving himself permission to open up, and being a product of the Internet.
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Notable Chicago: 10/20–10/26
Sunday 10/20: The Kindness of Strangers: A Festival of Storytelling begins today! Three weeks of carefully selected stories about strangers, with headliners Kim Morris, Eric Warner, and Amy Sumpter. Runs Sundays through Wednesdays through 11/6. 7:30 PM, $15, The Side Project…
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: If I’d Known You Were Coming by Kate Milliken
What we do to each other in moments breeds a kind of emotional genealogy that can’t be undone. The characters in Kate Milliken’s debut collection, If I’d Known You Were Coming, are bound to the emotional aftermath of their family…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Neil Gaiman on why our future depends on libraries, reading and writing, in The Guardian. The history of the dystopian novel. Submit to the Danahy Fiction Prize at the University of Tampa. David Michael Lukas on “when the news and…
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Last Book I Loved: Thieves I’ve Known
Thomas H. McNeely explains why Tom Kealey’s THIEVES I’VE KNOWN is the last book he loved.
