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Writers: Be Bold!
To risk something real as a writer is to risk making a fool of oneself. … It is a difficult joy to risk something new as a writer. But it is a joy nonetheless. Author and translator Idra Novey knows…
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Miracle and Magic
Check out Deborah Treisman in lively conversation with Lara Vapnyar on the “miracle of a New York City adventure,” the bewitching, wish-granting power of Leonard Cohen’s songs, and Russian immigrants. Vapnyar’s forthcoming novel, Still Here, explores Russian culture in the…
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Preservation
I remember my husband, when I asked once why things couldn’t be easy, the way they used to be, saying, bitterly and through clenched teeth, “It was never easy.”
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #4: Poetry That Wants to Tell You What It Has Seen
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy…
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Notable San Francisco: 4/27–5/3
Wednesday 4/27: Percival Everett, Brynn Saito, and Maxine Hong Kingston celebrate the release of Saito’s new collection of poetry (Power Made Us Swoon) from Red Wing Press. Talk about star power! Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore. The Literary Speakeasy presents…
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National Poetry Month Day 27: Shane McCrae
Banjo Yes Plucks an Apple from a Tree in a Park -For Tamir Rice I hold an apple in my hand on set It is or ain’t an apple ain’t a real Apple depending on…
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Two Bangladeshi Writers Murdered
Two secular journalists in Bangladesh were murdered recently, and these are far from the first incidents: These are only the latest in a recent string of killings of writers and journalists in Bangladesh. In a searing editorial Monday, the Dhaka…
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Widening Income Inequality by Frederick Seidel
Barbara Berman reviews Frederick Seidel’s Widening Income Inequality today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Whose Workshop Is It?
Here’s what I mean by not centering the author of the workshop piece: I always tell my students, following the lead of my favorite MFA professor, that the truth is that workshop is most helpful to the person talking, not…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Do plants have memories? Maybe! Let’s talk about water taste. Now let’s go on a tour of a Stasi prison! What the world needs is a very tall wooden Swedish skyscraper. If we’re being honest here, I really just want…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner discusses his new novel, Gone with the Mind, about a failed novelist, Mark Leyner, who gives a reading to his mom in an almost-deserted food court.
