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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/14-6/20
This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting! Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the Makeout Room for June’s Rumpus, Beautiful Beginnings! Co-hosted by SMITH…
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On Beating Writer’s Block
“It operates in marginal subcultures and it stars determined though hapless dreamers… It pits the art of violence against the violence of art.” Katherine Dunn – who ostensibly dematerialized after her 1989 novel Geek Love (which was nominated for a…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #7: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Pete Schwartz
Pete Schwartz lives in Downington, Pennsylvania. He works for IKON Office Solutions. This interview was conducted via gmail chat at 2:00 EST on June 10.
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A Certain Version of Bret Easton Ellis
Carolyn Kellogg, lead writer for the LA Times blog Jacket Copy, describes her experience interviewing Bret Easton Ellis and the strange routine he went through with nearly every reporter he encountered during the publicity tour for Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel…
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Morning Coffee
Hidden posters discovered in the Notting Hill tube stop. (Hurray!) Important question du jour: Are smarter people actually more likely to kill themselves? This is all in French, but that doesn’t make the pictures of Parisian street art any less…
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Complicit with Everything
A metaphorical review of Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, in which Johnny Rocket, Britney Spears, and the Saudi Monarchy play a crucial role in American poetry.
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“Letters to my editor”
“To The Editor, Last winter I submitted a story titled Vacation from Hell. Frankly, the length of time it has taken to reply to my submission is an insult. If I had gotten you pregnant back in January, instead of…
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Burning Warhol’s “Marilyn”
“I just bought an original, limited-edition Andy Warhol lithograph titled “Marilyn,” plate-signed and pencil-numbered 1293/2400, published by the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1986, when Andy was still alive. I have decided to destroy the print, to burn this piece…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Everything about these quotes GIANT dug up by Klaus Kinsky is amazing. At TMN, this is what happens when you interview someone you busted for plagiarism. Here are lots of reminders that the bestsellers of the past are not always…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It was yet another awesome week for Rumpus Books. Click through for links to reviews, rants, interviews, and more.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Check out this terrific interview with Amy King at Huffington Post on the current “Femininaissance” in poetry. Artifice Mag muses on summer reading and wants to know what you’re reading this summer. Dante Michaux on “What’s American about American Poetry?”…