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Readers Report Theme: “My Summer’s End”
Don’t forget we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” We are asking you to tackle the theme “My Summer’s End.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll choose the best ones to…
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In Other Library News…
This month, the Los Angeles Public Library invites you to celebrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick using your “lens of the modern and equally mythical Southern California state of mind.” If you’d like to join the celebration, you could participate in…
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Libraries, They Are A-Changing
For those of you disappointed that your local library is no longer the hip hang out it once was (that was a thing, right?), you’ll be glad to know that libraries are starting to change. Libraries all across the country are…
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Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson
Coleen Muir reviews Jeff Jackson’s MIRA CORPORA today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New Yorkers: Scottish castles are cheaper than your apartments. The time has come to put living roofs on our buses I guess. Here are some very rare dolphins and whales. People have maybe been getting Tuberculosis for 70,000 years. And…
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The Second Art Form
One summer day in 1985, a doctor calls my mother and tells her that there is empty space where parts of my brain should be. “I don’t understand it,” he says. “There should be muscle, and there’s nothing.” More tests,…
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Amazing Bookshops from around the World
A character in Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer calls bookstores “the closest thing I have to a church.” If you, too, worship at the altar of crowded shelves and cracked spines, you’ll adore this list of ten unique bookstores from around the…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Death of the Natural
I mean, his [Heaney’s] verse is under my skin. His verbs are inside my veins. His metaphors are in my nervous system. His moral clarity is a light inside my own, shall we say, republic of conscience.
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“Hunting Deer at the Spa”
“Do you feel pressure to have children before it’s too late?” “There aren’t a lot of photos out there of you. Is there a reason for that?” Read these and other questions that have been posed to female authors—but at…
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Artist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old on Weird, Wonderful Drawings
Much like when our beloved illustrator Jason Novak collaborated with his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter to draw all 43 US presidents, artist Mica Angela Hendricks shared her sketchpad with her four-year-old: “I was going to draw a body on this lady’s face,” I…
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Nick Cave Monday #51: “Your Funeral, My Trial”
I loved you babe, but I had to kill you. Nick once said that he kills people in his songs so he doesn’t have to kill them in real life.
