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Lauren O’Neal
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend. We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Alexis Smith
The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 15, is from Alexis Smith! Alexis is the author of the novel Glaciers and a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program in creative writing. She grew up in Alaska and Washington state, and now…
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Coverflip: If Books By Men Were By Women
As Elissa Bassist’s recent Funny Women column “The Next Great American Woman’s Novel” reminded us, books by women tend to get treated a little…differently from books by men. What would it look like if male authors’ novels were treated like Bassist’s…
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Rock Out with Dan Weiss’s The Yellow Dress
If you enjoy the coffee Dan Weiss brews every morning, you should hear the music he makes by night. His band, longtime Rumpus favorites The Yellow Dress, are playing an album-preview show tonight at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, along with…
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Help Keep Art in Oakland Alive
Oakland art gallery MOCO, a vital and exciting venue for visual and performing art outside the mainstream, turned one last Sunday. Unfortunately, there was no celebration: a few days earlier, the gallery’s owner, Eli Reyes, was the victim of a…
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Dip Your Toe In Chelsea Creek
Ella snorted a last bit of smoke from her nose, like a dragon, and flung her butt in the creek. “That’s not a job, Soph. That’s slavery. There are child labor laws. I bet you could call social services on…
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Female Critics on Women and Criticism
Attention, New York readers who love literary criticism and women and literary criticism by women: come to SHARP: A Discussion of Women and Criticism tomorrow night at 7:00 at the Bookstore Cafe! The event will feature female critics, including Rumpus…
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Talk About “By the Numbers”
Bowling scenes tend to pop up in films that fizzle, Mr. Bruzzese, 39, continued. Therefore it is statistically unwise to include one in your script. “A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who…
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Step Aside, Dashiell Hammett
If you like your detectives hardboiled and your femmes fatale, you’ll dig Flavorwire’s list of ten essential neo-noir authors. From Dennis Lehane (author of Shutter Island and Mystic River) to Lindsay Hunter (the heir apparent to Mary Gaitskill’s throne), these writers…
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The Biological Challenges of E-Readers
Traditionalists agree: There’s just something about good old-fashioned paper-and-glue books that e-readers can’t recreate. According to this Scientific American article, that “something” may be the way our brain processes written words as physical objects in “a kind of physical landscape.” Although…
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Boyz II Mentos and Other Illustrated Puns
PBR Kelly. Weekend at Bert & Ernie’s. They may not be as literary, but San Francisco artist Justin Hager’s illustrated puns remind us of Timothy Leo Taranto’s. Check out more of Hager’s work on his Tumblr (or at shows around SF).
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Michelle Tea’s Book Party Looks Awesome
Food, drink, fortune-telling, live music…is there anything about the release party for Michelle Tea’s new novel that doesn’t sound amazing? The book is Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, new from McSweeney’s McMullens; the refreshments are pierogi, chocolate, and cocktails; and the entertainment includes Annah…