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Friendless Female Sex Workers
Not only are these characters destined to die in the cautionary tales and to endure marriages to self-congratulatory men in the redemptions tales, they don’t even have anyone to miss them when they succumb to these fates At Hazlitt, Alana…
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/8–8/14
Monday 8/8: Eowyn Ivey discusses and signs To the Bright Edge of the World. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Author Series presents Jennine Capó Crucet and María Amparo Escandón reading from Make Your Home Among…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, the “luminous” poetry of Circe Maia takes center stage in the Saturday Interview. Chip Livingston talks to writer and teacher Jesse Lee Kercheval about her ongoing work translating Uruguayan poetry, much of which is written and performed in Montevideo, where “everyone…
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The Artist as Public Object
Is it because rather than keeping us almost entirely out of the empty room, as Lee did, Ocean chose to let us in through hints and ephemera? And more broadly, what are we owed by an artist whom we profess…
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Bad Faith by Theodore Wheeler
Christine Pivovar reviews Bad Faith by Theodore Wheeler today in Rumpus Books.
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Piles of Castoffs
For Signature, Rita Jacobs reflects on the importance and the role of Anne Frank’s diary, 72 years after it was written. She puts two recent works, Nathan Englander’s short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank,” and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your Monday morning photocrome. Flossing (maybe) doesn’t do anything WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Exhaustion as status symbol. The crows are way too smart and are coming to get us WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Fun news everybody, global warming is about to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Leigh Stein
Leigh Stein discusses her new memoir, Land of Enchantment, co-founding Out of the Binders, and why most of her projects begin as “an idea that someone else pushes back on.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Losing at Memory
But I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?
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Notable NYC: 8/6–8/12
Sunday 8/7: Queens Book Festival. Kaufman Astoria Studios, 11 a.m., free. Sarah Jean Grimm, Camonghne Felix, and Chelsea Hodson celebrate Zoe Dzunko’s chapbook launch, Selfless. LA Sala, 7 p.m., free. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Desiree Bailey, Courtney Lamar Charleston, Nabila Lovelace, Nicholas…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval
I have learned to put myself, my ego, to one side and truly experience someone else’s poetry.
