Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/5-4/11
This week, get your literature on at Mission-famous events by Quiet Lightning, Sister Spit, and Literary Death Match, celebrate all things female at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, party…
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Assorted Poems
Susan Wheeler manages to navigate a wide terrain of both content and form while maintaining the interconnectedness of one of the less lame concept albums ever produced.
Fabricated
In a truly modern media scandal, Tommaso Debenedetti (of the esteemed Italian Debenedetti) literary family has been publishing fake interviews in Il Piccolo magazine with the likes of Phillip Roth,…
Bonnie B. Lee: The Last Book I Loved, Shadow Country
People get sick of hearing the same story over and over again. I assume it’s why healthy couples split off from each other at cocktail parties. Peter Matthiessen has not…
Notable New York, This Week 4/5 – 4/11
This week in New York The Rumpus throws an A Night Together with Sam Lipsyte, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Jeff Lewis, Jump-Off winners and more, Jamaica Kincaid and Rick Moody…
All We Read Is Freaks
Who says that here, in the land of fluorescent signs, football mania, booming bass, and a Mouse with a compulsion to celebrate itself every few hours, a poet can’t still strike a nerve?
A Great Piece of Writing That Isn’t Famous and Has Never Been Collected in a Single-Authored Book, and Why the Hell Not?!
The reader wishes the reader had ever had such a teacher, although the teacher doesn’t seem himself to think he’s all that much of a teacher.
Steve Almond Confronts The Man, Wins
“If asking contributors to write for free then collecting 50K is good karma, what’s bad karma, Mark?” I know we’ve been linking to a lot of Rumpus contributor Steve Almond…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Easter, everybody! A slideshow of writerly villains in film. (via) “Why Twitter is Gertrude Stein.” (via) I know it’s not hip right now, but I love me some “neuronovels.”…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, we’ve got some pretty excellent reviews, oodles of interviews, and a third installment of “An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America.” Come see.
WILLA or Won’t Ya?
The following is a friendly message from Rumpus contributer Susan Steinberg (who is performing at the April Rumpus event in San Francisco) about WILLA, a new organization for and about women…