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Ashley Perez
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The 215 Festival Kicks Off!
The 215 Festival, Philadelphia’s premier literary festival kicks off tomorrow, October 18 through Sunday, October 20th. Each day is in a different area of the city. Musician/novelist Wesley Stace, the subject of one of Rick Moody’s recent Swinging Modern Sounds columns, reads…
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Alice Munro Round-Up
As you may have heard by now, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature! If you are not familiar with Munro’s work, Slate has a list of her best stories to read first. Find out why The New Yorker…
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The Literary City of San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle has launched an online literary map. Check out the city like never before. The book editor John McMurtrie writes, “No such resource will ever be all-encompassing, but this one will change and grow with the rhythm…
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Read The Pop-Up Restaurant!
We don’t know which publication first reported about The Pulitzer’s rumored lambskin vellum menu, written with Nano-Carbon archival ink. Nor do we have a goddamn clue which food critic first told the world about how their specially weighted Palladium alloy…
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Live Like The Most Creative People In History
Get up early? Walk around in the nude? Do you breakfast on opium and croissants? Then you are sharing the same creative habits of people like Hemingway, Franklin and Proust. Hint: lunchtime martinis do not help productivity!
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Two Dollar Radio Is Moving Into Film!
The Columbus based indie publisher, Two Dollar Radio is expanding to the big screen! One of the first titles to be released from Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures is The Removals, written by Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes and directed by…
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Government Shut Down Round-Up, Part 2!
One week later and the government is still shut down. Here is the latest update. With hundreds of thousands of workers not being allowed to work, the government is quietly running, with unpaid interns! This shutdown has been planned for…
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Remembering A Literary Hoax
Michelle Tea writes about a dark time in the San Francisco literary scene. After the novel Sarah came out to critical acclaim, JT Leroy was a powerful new voice in the queer community. It turns out JT Leroy never existed. She…
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Great Book Dedications!
Here are 30 book dedications that are probably just as good as the book. Included in this amazing round up are Tobias Wolff, John Steinbeck, Charles Bukowski, and C.S. Lewis. Here is one from A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genuis:…
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S’up Bros! J-Dog’s Bachelor Party!
Jim Gavin keeps us updated on the sickest bachelor party with the oddest ending ever. Ethan’s bachelor party in Cancun totally WENT OFF, but now we have to take it to another level for J-Dog! In the coming weeks, I’ll…
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Read Like Bowie
The Art Gallery in Ontario has a new exhibit about David Bowie. Curator Geoffrey Marsh states that Bowie read a book a day and he attaches a list of 100 of Bowie’s favorite reads. A few titles on the list are: In Cold Blood,…
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Two Literary Masters In One Place!
Hey Bay Area! Today’s Rumpus Contributor Peter Orner and Yiyun Li will meet to discuss writing and Orner’s second story collection, Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge. The fantastic event is free and takes place tomorrow evening at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts!