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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Beautiful Beginnings in San Francisco
The next Rumpus is this Monday(!), do you have your tickets yet? The Rumpus and SMITH Magazine Proudly Present: Beautiful Beginnings June 14th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Click here to buy your advance tickets! Featuring authors…
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Last Minute Notice
Lena Dunham’s excellent new film and SXSW favorite Tiny Furniture is screening this evening in NYC at BAM. We interviewed Lena last year, you should definitely check it out.
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“Don’t fuck this up!”
The Morning News has a long interview with David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker since 1998, which covers a wide range of topics (including how he got the gig).
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Pornographic Ghosts
“Pornographic ghosts sound like a terrific idea. I just today bought a Victorian corset to wear to the Rumpus event, (though I may have to go back to the store to get myself laced back into it properly), where I…
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“I am not a good book reviewer.”
“I recently read Ben Greenman’s forthcoming What He’s Poised to Do and no book in recent memory has impressed me as much as this lush and thoroughly engaging short story collection. I am not a good book reviewer. All I…
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Tao Is Still Taking Questions
“also, would you consider answering questions like these continuously until everyone got bored asking you questions?” “yes, i am now committed to doing that until [an unknown time]” Author Tao Lin will be answering any and all questions asked here…
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How to Break Up with Your Girlfriend in 64 Easy Steps
We’ve taken this video out of the archives and re-posted it in honor of today’s story “The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend,” by Elissa Bassist. Bassist originally posted this video last year, along with a short discussion about…
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The Grey Lady Drops “Tweet”
“Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And ‘tweet’ — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.” The New York Times has banned the word “tweet.”