dislocate on Jim Shephard on John Hawkes
Following his Appreciation of John Hawkes, which we ran here on The Rumpus, dislocate interviews novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard about the piece, as well as the universal…
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Melissa Tan
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Melissa Tan is a former runway model, fashion designer, motorcycle enthusiast, and bacon aficionado who has written for The Examiner, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic. When she’s not sewing or writing, she can be found hunting for new music or the perfect hot dog. Usually at the same time.
MoMA “Acquires” Intangible Object
As mentioned in this morning’s Morning Coffee, and in what might only be explained as a tribute to the Pop Art sensibility of reclaiming everyday objects, the @ symbol is…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/22-3/28
This Week, tweet for a good cause at TwestivalSF 2010, stop by for just an hour or the entire day to hear sounds of all sorts at the Switchboard Music…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s…
Noise Pop: The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger
The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was due to take the stage any minute, and the venue was still half empty. The bar remained fairly quiet until well…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/8-3/14
This week, it’s Monthly Rumpus time again, Ilisa Barbash’s Sweetgrass takes over at the Landmark Lumiere, learn about the San Francisco Panorama at San Francisco State University, and maybe go…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/1-3/7
This week, learn about Asian culture at Sandra Lee Gallery’s acclaimed Chinese New Year show and Robin Sukhadia’s Understanding Bollywood workshop series, get your post Noise Pop film fix at…
245 Rules for Writing Fiction
In anticipation of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, which comes out next month, The Guardian has put together a comprehensive list of rules for writing by writers like Margaret…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/22-2/28
This week: See Rumpus favorites Stephen Elliott and W. Kamau Bell at their respective performances on Sex and Black History Month, raise money for Bryant Elementary School at Wet Wednesday…
Noise Pop 2010: A Pre-Pop Introduction
Despite being a working student whose free time consists of reading comic books on the train while wedged in the middle of a commute hour human sandwich, being a writer…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/15-2/21
This week: Recover from Sunday at A Valentine’s Day Post Mortem, John D’Agata reads at USF, Noise Pop invades Nightlife, and the Mission loves bikes so much it finally dedicates…
Harold Evans on Journalism’s Roots
Famed British journalist and long-time editor of London’s Sunday Times, Harold Evans’ career of highlighting otherwise buried stories has been documented in his new book My Paper Chase: True Stories…