Columns
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Brewster by Mark Slouka
Slouka turns ambiguity into an asset, recreating the uncertainty of a boy trapped on thin ice who can hear the surface starting to snap but can’t see where the cracks are forming.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band through August 10, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. A small world carried on the back of a crab. A differently inaccessible hermetic world of a monk in the sky. …
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Greenford’s Gift
Thirty-seven years after leaving the West London suburb—a psychic terrain as much as a geographical one—I can look back on it with something other than an anguished mix of tenderness and terror.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Last First Day
“My desires had now become too big, the call to a larger life too loud to be easily hushed.” As her children age and her identity as a Mother shifts, the author must step outside the safety of an outgrown…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Sunday Rumpus alum, Laura Bogart’s, Salon piece, “I Choose to Be Fat” has gone viral, with good reason. And Rumpus gal Antonia Crane in the LA Times, strip-club-consultant extraordinaire. If you read Margo Rabb’s fascinating “Fallen Idols” in the NYTimes,…
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The Juvenilia + Rookie: Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop in LA (8/9-8/11)
Six years ago, the photography website Flickr allowed a community of young photographers around the world to discover one another’s work. One such friendship developed between Nolan Boomer, editor of the online zine The Juvenilia, and Erica Segovia, staff photographer for Rookie magazine.…
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In the Laurels, Caught by Lee Ann Brown
Sarah Sarai reviews Lee Ann Brown’s In the Laurels, Caught today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/3 – 8/9
Saturday 8/3: Red Hen Press launches their kickstarter campaign with a Poetry Prom. Poets Douglas Kearney and Laurel Ann Bogen poetize as Prom King and Queen. There will be finger food, “punch,” and more Prom-like activities. Guests are encouraged to dress…
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Links I Like
I texted my friend at midnight: Are you still at the party? My friend said she still was there, she was in the garden, and there were a lot of familiar faces. I showed up and she was right, there…
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Happy Birthday, James Baldwin!
Happy birthday to James Baldwin, who would have been 89 today. A pioneering author of fiction, essays, plays, and poetry, Baldwin explored what it meant to be black and gay long before such themes became acceptable to the mainstream. He…
