Beat Generation Brought to the Stage
Beat Generation, Kerouac’s only known full-length play, will premiere this year in eight performances as part of October’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. The play was written in…
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Hot Pink in Your Ears
Listen to Adam Levin read “Considering the Bittersweet End of Susan Falls” from his latest collection of short stories, Hot Pink. (Via The Millions)
This American Life Retraction
This American Life has retracted its story “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” Ira Glass says that airing the episode was a mistake, asserting that Mike Daisey–whose one-act play was…
Reading with Urgency
Books and depression fill Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s essay “Blue Like You” over at This Recording. “The treatment was very gentle and it was very nice and it helped me go…
“The Thousand-Plus-Mile Journey to Sugar”
At ZYZZYVA, Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane interviews Cheryl Strayed about Wild, rebuilding, Sugar, and more. “I bring a lot of the wisdom I gained on my hike into the “Dear…
Hong Sang-soo Interview
The Museum of the Moving Image will be opening a “mini-retrospective” of Hong Sang-soo’s films on March 17th. BOMBlog interviews the director about “process, collaboration, and drinking.” His answers also…
Out of Print
Over two centuries after the first publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica is dropping its print edition to focus on a digital version. If you’re in need of some closure, check out Rumpus…
“What Isn’t for Sale?”
At The Atlantic, philosopher Michael J. Sandel breaks down the hidden (or not so hidden) costs of a culture in which almost everything is for sale, and articulates the key…
Geoff Dyer & David Thomson Convo (Tonight!)
Litquake and The Believer are presenting a conversation between novelist, essayist, and New York Times Book Review columnist Geoff Dyer and film critic David Thomson. Tonight, 7p.m. at North Beach’s…
Untamed Twitter
“On Twitter, playland of masqueraders, we are what we choose to divulge. Or to conceal. It’s nice to have some choice left, about something.” Margaret Atwood writes about her adventures…
Tom McCarthy Interview
Interview Magazine talks with Tom McCarthy about his novels Remainder, C, and Men in Space (which we reviewed today). Additional topics include McCarthy’s “detour through the art world” and founding membership…
More on Franzen and the Web
At Salon, David Daley argues that “Jonathan Franzen and the Web will never get along.” Daly points us to an anecdote in Franzen’s “On Autobiographical Fiction” in contending that both the…