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When Does Heartbreak Become a Story?
Rumpus contributor (and reader at tonight’s Sleeping With Friends) Jami Attenberg discusses getting over heartbreak, and asks “when does it become just a story?”
An Unlikely Advocate
“As someone who long reaped a paycheck from the sale of books, Mr. Mod isn’t looking at the transition with any form of glee. Instead, he argues that it doesn’t…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/8-3/14
This week, it’s Monthly Rumpus time again, Ilisa Barbash’s Sweetgrass takes over at the Landmark Lumiere, learn about the San Francisco Panorama at San Francisco State University, and maybe go…
Notable New York, This Week 3/8 – 3/14
This week in New York Sam Lipsyte reads from The Ask, David Shields reads from Reality Hunger, the Magnetic Fields perform, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks reads, Lore Segal and Tao Lin…
Resident Bohemians: The Seer, Dee Dee Ramone
This week our series on the renowned artists, writers and musicians who have lived, or currently live, in the Hotel Chelsea continues. Today’s Resident Bohemian is legendary punk rock musician…
Reality Boredom: Why David Shields is Completely Right and Totally Wrong
1. Reality Hunger, the newest book from the always interesting David Shields, comes sheathed in glowing blurbs from the likes of Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, Amy Hempel and Jonathan Lethem.…
Popular Science Online Forever!
Hey fellow nerds, guess what? Every Popular Science has gone online! All 137 years. And it’s free! And it’s searchable! It’s much better than watching the Oscars. I promise. I…
Northern California Book Award Nominees Announced
The Northern California Book Award Nominees have been announced, and we’re thrilled to have reviewed, interviewed and excerpted a bunch of them here at The Rumpus. The Rumpus Interview with…
Jeanette Winterson on Grief, Being “Post-Heterosexual”
“Susie (Orbach) calls herself post-heterosexual. I like that description because I like the idea of people being fluid in their sexuality. I don’t for instance consider myself to be a…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Someone bought Agatha Christie’s old “battered” trunk for a hundred quid at auction, and in it, she found some jewels, most likely from the great mystery writer’s infamous collection. (via Confessions…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Just so you know, Sunday is a good day to catch up with what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.