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Why We Need Libraries
For VICE, Amelia Dimoldenberg asks people in London why they visit their local libraries. Since 2010, UK has lost nearly 350 libraries because of cuts in local spending. But the answers Dimoldenberg receives show how necessary libraries still are: “The library is a…
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Fueling the Future of Fiction
We may have the necessities of life, but that’s never been enough for us as a species. We are forever pushing at the boundaries, never quite convinced that we’ve got what we need to live as we want… But I…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/4–4/10
Monday 4/4: Alan Swyer discusses and signs The Beard. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Kirsten Valdez Quade discusses and signs Night at the Fiestas: Stories. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. It’s the first Monday of the month, which means you…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, National Poetry Month at The Rumpus continues with Paula Bohince’s “The Flint River” and Adam McGovern’s “Perseid meteors, 2015.” Meanwhile, the inimitable Brandon Hicks illustrates the exhaustive contents of his 2005 Saturn Ion. Then, in the eighth installment of The Conversation, Jayson…
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Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Nina Schuyler reviews Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey today in Rumpus Books.
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What Was Once Breathing
Iraqis are generalized as victims, refugees, or, in the worst case, corpses. Betty Rosen, writing for The Point, dives into Iraqi fiction and its relationship with corpses as a way of practicing radical empathy in troubling times, with Sinan Antoon’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So, you’re probably wondering, what are the Panama Papers? This is an article about space archaeologists AND viking history. Asking the important questions: why do we have toes? Let’s all look at some amazing voodoo cloaks. Actually I AM the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath talks about his new collection, XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century, capitalism, history, and what it might mean to write a wordless poem.
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The Sunday Rumpus: Gone Fishin’
We are at AWP in sunny southern California, and taking the week off. It was great to meet some of you at the Rumpus table these last few days—thanks for stopping by! We’ll be back Sunday, April 10th, with new work for your…
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National Poetry Month Day 3: Adam McGovern
Perseid meteors, 2015 I went to dig for falling stars alone in a shadowed field
