Columns
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Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson
Chris Vaughan reviews Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start your day right, with ten hours of ambient Arctic noises. What is life but a 90s Taco Bell interior? I repeat, Sunny the red panda is still at large. On the hunt for stolen moon rocks. Never forget that…
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Albums of Our Lives: Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight
Something about the twangy banjo and the melancholy vocals just made me feel less alone. And I hated being alone.
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Visit Us at AWP!
If you’re at AWP this week, please stop by and say hi! We’re tables 433 and 434 at the bookfair, and we’ll be ready to fulfill all your Rumpus merchandise needs and answer any questions you may have about the site.…
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The Real Lives of Working Writers
Bestselling and award-winning writers Danielle Trussoni and Walter Kirn host the Writerly podcast, a weekly discussion of all things pertaining to the real lives of working writers. From getting and firing an agent, to book publicity, to contracts, to working…
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A Recommended Reading List for Trump’s America
We asked nineteen authors what books they’d suggest as recommended reading in light of America’s new political reality.
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Notable San Francisco: 2/8–2/14
Wednesday 2/8: Poet Brandon Brown reads. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books. Thursday 2/9: Adam Hochschild, National Book Award Finalist. Free, 5 p.m., Morrison Libray at UC Berkeley.
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This Week in Essays
Austin Gilkeson writes at Catapult about holding on to and savoring that which is easily taken for granted as he loses hearing in one ear and waits for the other to go. For West Magazine, Laine Bruzek describes how living under constant threat…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Envisioning apocalyptic London. Hey guess what? The police are robbing you. This New Yorker piece on the Dylann Roof trial is the best (and most intense)thing I’ve read all week. It’s time to learn the squid alphabet. Dashed dreams of…
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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy
Poet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
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Album of the Week: Sampha’s Process
After collaborating with the likes of Beyoncè, SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Drake, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, and Solange, 28-year-old British singer, songwriter and producer Sampha has finally released his first solo album, Process, via Young Turks. A significant and evocative title,…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rosalie Moffett
Rosalie Moffett discusses her new collection June in Eden, writing humor in poetry, using contemporary references, and trying to understand the world.