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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself,…
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Soviet Daughter by Julia Alekseyeva
Catherine Carberry reviews Soviet Daughter by Julia Alekseyeva today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
will return bright and early tomorrow morning. Stay warm and dry out there. Take care of each other.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why do killer whales (or, like, anyone) go through menopause? Ancient shark was doomed because it loved to eat tiny whales. Same dude. In non-whale news: Maybe Mexico should just buy Twitter. BACK TO THE SEA: hey look at this…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #77: People Give Me Things, Part One
[T]he thing about receiving music from other people is this: there is always some grace associated with the transaction.
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The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: JoAnn Balingit
Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poem is from JoAnn Balingit.
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This Week in Posivibes: Fire Walk With Me
In celebration of the prequel film’s 25th anniversary, Death Waltz is re-releasing the soundtrack to Fire Walk With Me. The score is much lesser known, and hard to come by, than the soundtrack to the Twin Peaks series that Death Waltz re-released last year. Like the…
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Next Letter for Kids: Jenn Bishop
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Jenn Bishop! Jenn writes to us all about her many pets—meet and see pictures of Brownie the rabbit, gerbils Ralphy and Flash, and cats Suki and Lilly. Subscribe by January 13 to make sure this letter…
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Notable San Francisco: 1/11–1/17
Wednesday 1/11: Passages on the Lake (hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts) presents Daphne Gottlieb, Sonya Renee Taylor, Tracey Knapp, Derrick Carr, and Haldane King. Free, 7 p.m., The Terrace Room. Shanthi Sekaran (The Prayer Room) reads from her new novel, Lucky…
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This Week in Essays
At Catapult, Toni Jensen writes a mesmerizing narrative of documenting assault and human trafficking intermixed with her experiences at Standing Rock and facing threats of violence. At Hazlitt, Aparita Bhandari examines goddess figures and the ways that within current belief systems…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe there were, like, tons of moons. Lebanon’s racist, gendered architecture. Isn’t it time the dolphins started to protect themselves (or their smaller relatives). Let’s hear it for overpasses and flyovers. Gather round and listen to the story of Gay…
