Rebecca Rubenstein

Our friends at WRITE CLUB SF are hosting their awesome monthly event tonight, so go if you have the chance! “The Agony of Undefeat (Special XL Edition!)” will feature 8 WRITE CLUB SF champions duking it out, with only 4 left undefeated.…

Though August is the laxest month (even Congress goes on vacation!), The Rumpus continues to fill its weekends with top-notch essays. Here’s what went up over the last three days: Amy Butcher argues in favor of Eminem’s artistry, despite his…

Writer Ben Greenman and artist Jaya Miceli have a fun op-art piece up at The New York Times. Titled “On This Date in Future History,” Greenman and Miceli predict some events to come, including the fate of the NFL, the rise…

Attention NYC folks: we’ve got another event coming up, and this one’s for you! On Monday, September 10th, The Rumpus Loves New York! will be taking over Public Assembly. We’ll be co-hosting this amazing night with Flavorpill, and featuring readings…

Do you like comedy? And burritos? Or maybe you like comedy while eating burritos? The SF Comedy and Burrito Festival is coming this October, and tickets are on sale now. Featuring Rumpus contributor and all-around funny woman Janine Brito, as…

For those of us living in San Francisco (or any urban center, for that matter), Peter Orner’s “Who Owns That House?” will probably hit some familiar notes. Published today on The New York Times’s Opinionator blog, the Rumpus columnist’s piece tells the all-too-common…

Brace yourselves: The Believer‘s totally rad rock show, The Love Songs for Lamps Roadshow, is coming to San Francisco this Sunday! In conjunction with its 2012 Music Issue—which you can buy here and read excerpts from here—The Believer has spent all of August touring…

We’re all a bit sad to be losing Adobe Bookshop here in San Francisco. Due to high rent, the 24-year-old haven for bibliophiles will be shutting its doors at the end of the month. Today, The Bold Italic pays tribute…

“When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and events. Your conversations are fiction. Your friends and loved ones—they…

“It’s a tricky business, legitimacy. Often, as we dole it out, our decisions are informed by invisible forces that are anything but objective. Who sets the standards? What happens when we label someone else’s story as invalid? And how could…

On the heels of our interview with William Shatner, here’s another icon for the taking. At The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus contributor Brin-Johnson Butler interviews Mike Tyson. Mixing memoir and journalism, Butler unpacks a lifelong closeness he’s felt to the boxing…