Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/11-4/17
This week in San Francisco, join The Rumpus in making a ruckus (tonight!), Mortified is back! and FREE ICE CREAM. This is gonna be a good week.
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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.
Save The Eagle
The Eagle Tavern, a decades-old San Francisco gay bar, may be shutdown on April 29th due to a dispute with its landlord. Local residents aren’t going to give up their…
“In Education Your Value Depends on Other People Failing.”
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel believes that the housing bubble has been replaced by another market set to burst: higher education. (via @rachelannyes)
“Why Bother? Why Read Poetry at All?”
NPR talks with David Orr, poetry critic for The New York Times, and posts an excerpt from his new book, Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry.
“Yearning for Something Unknown.”
“Even if I’m poor, it’s like being rich. That’s what it is to be rich. Not having to do any shit you don’t want to do.” The Days of Yore…
Gain Nonfiction Knowledge and Help the Kids
The good folks at 826 Valencia would like you to come and pick the brains of their “esteemed panel of writers and publishing experts” who will be discussing “the craft…
Up Since June 8th, 2009
In case you ever doubted The Monthly Rumpus’s staying power, check out this picture of one of our first ever event posters:
Drinks Are on Zapruder
We are very pleased to hear that poet and Rumpus contributor Matthew Zapruder has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Update: D. A. Powell also made the cut. Congrats to both poets!…
Polishing The Pale King
Michael Pietsch, David Foster Wallace’s editor since Infinite Jest, tells The Atlantic “how he turned Wallace’s unfinished manuscript into a publishable novel after the author’s 2008 suicide.”
Losing Your Job to HuffPo
“In the end, 20 percent of AOL’s in-house workforce was canned and nearly every editorial staffer, including my own editor with whom I’d worked every day for two years, was…
A Very Special Discount
We only have a few Women of The Rumpus Literary Calenders left in stock and, seeing as we’re almost through March now, we’re offering a very special discount: you can…