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Notable Chicago: 12/9–12/15
Sunday 12/11: As always, the Uptown Poetry Slam is going down at The Green Mill. Open mic starts at 7 p.m. followed by the slam itself. $7, 21+. Tuesday 12/13: Kimberly Drew, author of the popular blog Black Contemporary Art,…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Long Walk
What started as an update of “The Lottery” for the Vietnam era is now a guidebook to a country that has obviated satire.
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i be but i ain’t by Aziza Barnes
Heather Hughes reviews Aziza Barnes’s i be but i ain’t today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As we approach the weekend, we’d just like to take one more moment to encourage you to donate to those suffering from the Ghost Ship fire and to take a moment to read some of the memorials for those tragically…
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
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Macho Prey: Homophobia and Unlikely Victims in Tickled
The film only grazes the issue, but homophobia is the fuel of the harassment that the targets face.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #61: Thalia Field
Thalia Field’s latest work, Experimental Animals: (A Reality Fiction), published by Solid Objects, is a novel that makes you wonder anew about the possibilities of the genre. Told in the voice of Marie Francoise “Fanny” Bernard, wife of Claude Bernard,…
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Song of the Day: “Louder Than A Bomb”
“Rhythm is the rebel,” Chuck D raps on “Louder Than A Bomb,” one of many outstanding tracks from Public Enemy’s touchstone 1988 record, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Of all the controversial and heartfelt statements…
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Notable Portland: 12/8–12/14
Thursday 12/8: Join Susan DeFreitas for the Northwest launch of her debut novel, Hot Season. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Friday 12/9: Enjoy an evening of cross-genre entertainment by The Brody Ensemble and selected guest poets Neil Aitken,…
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, eventually we’ll get that extra hour. 2016 as trolley problem. We all need more biosphere in our lives. Here’s a story about thousands of geese accidentally landing in a vat of acid (basically). The many lives of the…
