Columns
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Notable San Francisco: 1/25–1/31
Wednesday 1/25: Perfectly Queer presents Funny Bits: Humorous Stories from East Bay Queer Writers featuring Ajuan Mance, Willy Wilkinson, and Anna Pulley. Free, 7 p.m., The Octopus Literary Salon. John Else (True South: Henry Hampton and “Eyes on the Prize,”…
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This Week in Essays
For the Passages North blog, Jennifer Maritza McCauley discovers a connection to Rosa Parks and goes to Alabama in search of answers. Can you go home again to a place you’ve never been? Enuma Okoro writes for Aeon on moving to Nigeria…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Tech elites (and other super rich) are preparing for the apocalypse. What a fun time we’re living in! BTW what would happen if North Korea nuked us? Want to be successful? Instead of being good at things just tell some…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Glancy
Robert Glancy discusses his sophomore novel, Please Do Not Disturb, growing up under a dictatorship, borrowing and stealing from reality, and his love of proverbs.
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Album of the Week: Cherry Glazerr’s Apocalipstick
Clementine Creevy is a nineteen-year-old girl from Los Angeles with a vision: having a career in music in a society that “would deem that a prodigious girl can’t be in a progressive rock band while also being in complete control…
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Readers Report: The Emperor’s New Clothes
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
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Weekly Geekery
Writers gonna smoke (smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke). Find a Swedish latte papa to father your kids, says science. Fiction loves it some talking trees.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Revolution Books in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan is literally advocating for real revolution. Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon spent Inauguration Day handing out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. Dallas, Texas is getting an independent bookstore.
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Sheba Karim reviews Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Psst… Uber is pretty awful. So you want to be an asteroid miner. Maybe it’s time for some new deep sea footage to remind us that not everything is awful. Here are you Soviet welcome signs for the day. On…
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Who Run the World?
Look through these images, and feel proud. Feel inspired. Know that yes, the battle is uphill and will be hard-won, but it will be won.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Nicky Beer
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail from poet Nicky Beer! Nicky sends us a letter crammed with all of the experiences she has during her first twenty-four hours in Spain. To read about Nicky’s adventures in Spain, subscribe…