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Lisa Dusenbery
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Praise for The Middlesteins
Our October Rumpus Book Club selection, Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, has been receiving lots of accolades from the likes of O Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Grantland. “…It’s clear-eyed funny and truthful and deeply moving, especially in the killer-punch of its…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. “If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time.” Indeed. Take…
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Daniel Alarcón on Radio Ambulante
KQED talks with author Daniel Alarcón about the new Spanish-language program Radio Ambulante, of which he is co-founder and executive producer. (Our recent interview with Alarcón is mentioned in the segment! Have you read it?)
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Rock-N-Roll Carnival
This Thursday, Broke-Ass Stuart, Tricycle Records and Public Works are hosting a Rock-n-Roll Carnival in San Francisco. The event will feature performances by Birdmonster, Le VICE, and Teenage Sweater. Plus magic, comedy, burlesque, whiskey, and more. October 11th at Public…
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Banned Books
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott reads a passage from Catch-22 over at the City Lights blog. The reading is part of City Lights’ month-long Banned Books Project, which features authors sharing excerpts from their favorite banned books.
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SF’s Adobe Bookshop Lives!
Good news: Adobe Bookshop, which has spent twenty-three years in the Mission, will not be closing despite rising rent. Andrew McKinley, the proprietor of Adobe, explains his plan to transform the shop. “I choose to be an optimist and believe that…
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Ethos of the Era
The Atlantic ruminates on how Cheryl Strayed‘s espousal of “motherfuck-itude,” self-reliance, and radical empathy is especially relevant in our post-recession era. “Strayed’s path—hauling her needed possessions on her back down a free trail in Wild, or her gospel of ‘nobody…
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I Don’t See You
“I Don’t See You,” Tim N. Taylor’s essay on the racism he witnessed while coming of age in Waterloo, Iowa, made The Top 5 Longreads of the Week. Thanks, Longreads!
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Because He Makes The World Safer
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about why he’s voting for Obama for the 90 Days, 90 Reasons project. “Mitt Romney… goes on the attack before he knows all the facts. He wants to draw red lines (with regards to Iran’s…
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When We Allow the Imagination to Roam Free
At The New Yorker, Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean explores what Mitt Romney might learn from Wallace Stevens. “This embedded idea, that there was something liberating in the elimination of risk, led Stevens to write approvingly in that company journal…