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The King and the Lioness
So Mark Twain’s personal life? Complicated: “Documents known as a ‘blackmail dossier’ that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are to published for the first time. “The dossier, in which Twain describes…
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“Will the iPad Matter?”
Yesterday the question was posed, “Will the iPad help books go viral?” Well MelvilleHouse Publishing doesn’t think so. In fact, they’re wondering if the iPad will matter at all, predicting that “the Apple device and its accompanying iBookstore won’t be…
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Jon Adams Is King of the World
Today is the two-year anniversary of Rumpus comic artist extraordinaire Jon Adams‘ strip, Truth Serum. But that’s not all, the San Francisco Chronicle has revamped its weekend insert, 96 Hours, creating a comics section that highlights local and independent artists. The comic…
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The Jump-Off: Read with Sam Lipsyte
New York writers, win a chance to read your work alongside Sam Lipsyte at our NYC event on April 6. Lipsyte is one of our featured guests at A Night Together, an event The Rumpus is co-hosting with Tin House…
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National Poetry Month: Day 1. Two Poems from W. S. Di Piero
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project, featuring new, previously unpublished poems by 30 different authors. We kick off the month with two poems by W. S. Di Piero. What Have You Got To Lose? Third floor walk-up, simple…
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Morning Coffee
Listening to the music of the spheres. Very important information: how to repossess an airplane. As long as Olafur Eliasson keeps making things I will keep linking to them. Did you read this weekend’s NY Times Magazine article on gay…
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The Rumpus Interview with K. M. Soehnlein
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character’s self-awareness—or lack of self-awareness.”
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Soehnlein
Tomorrow we have an interview with K.M. Soehnlein, award-winning author of The World of Normal Boys. For those of you who live in San Francisco, Soehnlein will be reading from his latest book, Robin and Ruby, at Books Inc. in the…
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Books Going Viral?
“Plenty have predicted that Apple’s tablet will decimate Amazon’s dominance over the ebook world and how, together, the two companies are screwing the publishers with tough dealmaking. Far fewer prognosticators have considered how smaller companies–and, in turn, authors–are going to benefit…