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In The Not-So-Penal Colony
Today at The Morning News, Alexander Chee waxes poetic about artist colonies. Touching on MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Civitella Ranieri, Chee explores the mystery behind the everyday at colonies, and dispels the myth that these places…
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Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus?
No? Why not? We’d like to know the last book you loved and why. Send us a writeup of the last book you truly loved — a little bit book review and a lot about why you loved it —…
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Notable San Francisco 8/13-8/19
This week in San Francisco Monday 8/13: The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a rare night with renowned UK-based translator Margaret Jull Costa, whose translations comprise works by Jose Saramago, and Javier Marias. 7pm, $10, Book Club of…
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Weekend Essay Round-Up
This weekend’s Rumpus was a little quieter than usual, but by no means silent. If you missed them, here are three essays to get your week going: Michelle Dean pays tribute to David Rakoff. She also sheds light on an…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/13-8/19
This (busy!) week in NYC: MONDAY 8/13: Melville House, WORD, and The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn team up to present a Words by the Water listening party with Dave Tompkins (How to Wreck a Nice Beach). Tomkins will…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The mystery of the five-fingered phantom hand. As long as we’re talking about hands, a whole bunch of ancient severed hands were just discovered in Egypt! War sand (is not as exciting as it sounds)! The history (and de-evolution) of…
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About David Rakoff
I did not know David Rakoff, never so much as met him, and I did not know that he was in these last few weeks quite as sick as he clearly was, but for weeks before his death I’d been…
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Francis Ford Coppola’s TWIXT
Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film TWIXT opens in San Francisco this Friday, August 10th. Written, directed and produced by Coppola, this film represents his new code of personal filmmaking ethics: the film must be an original story; it must have…
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BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER
Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released in December 2012 by McSweeney’s. “Song Reader is an experiment…
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An Oxford American Update
Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay recently posted about the troubling situation at the Oxford American in which Mark Smirnoff, the founding editor of the Oxford American, and managing editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald were fired amidst hushed circumstances, linking to Smirnoff’s…
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Steinbeck Family Outraged at Use of Lennie Small in Death Row Cases
After learning that Of Mice and Men was invoked in a Texas court to argue for the execution of the mentally impaired, John Steinbeck’s son Thomas spoke out in support of the (unsuccessful) effort to halt Tuesday’s execution of Marvin Wilson,…
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David Rakoff, 1964 – 2012
We’re saddened by the news that David Rakoff died today at 47. The Awl has a tribute to the “writer, aesthete, genius, New York devotee… exceptional reporter and observer, performer, director and incredibly kind person” whose body of work includes…