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Turkish Protest News
Though American media coverage has been minimal, anti-government protests in Turkey have been raging for three days now. The BBC has a summary of the protesters’ grievances against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s increasingly autocratic and religious prime minister. The Guardian is maintaining…
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Notable New York: 6/3-6/9
Monday 06/03: To start your week with something a little different, catch Poetry in Theatre: Early Frank O’Hara + Plays by Contemporary Poets, which includes works by Ariana Reines, Jim Fletcher, Kenneth Goldsmith, Bob Holman, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Elebash Theatre,…
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Nick Cave Monday #38: “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
Rest in peace. RIP. That’s what we say when someone dies. So this Jesus dude in the Bible resurrects some people according to the gospels. One of the privileged to come back from the dead was Lazarus. Lazarus was in…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The weekend is over, but the Rumpus features remain. Another installation of Yumi and Everyone We Know about fire tigers (they only burn you alive if you forget to offer them candy). And a Sunday Rumpus essay called “On Color, Brain…
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Hateful Things
Taylor’s arms are around me and I haven’t yet realized that the first boy I’ve ever loved is teaching me how to hate.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In case you were wondering, abandoned theme parks are still my favorite. Last week was a big one in the weird animal news world. Pangaea with today’s political borders is pretty fascinating. Old domains never die, they just get co-opted…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Matt Bell’s debut novel is out from Soho. See Matt in the new “Story and Song” issue of Shelf Unbound. Also includes a great conversation between Tod Goldberg and Rob Roberge. Hannah Arendt and the New Yorker. Dzanc’s rEprint series…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Color, Brain Cancer, and the Possibility I am Already Dead
When the author discovers that even his “favorite color” isn’t safe from reinvention, he sets out to explore what it means to maintain a fixed identity over time.
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Links I Like
Joshuah Bearman’s website led me to Christy Wampole’s “The Essayfication of Everything” and Wample led me to Phillip Lopate’s “The Essay: an Exercise in Doubt.” After that, I stumbled onto Andrew Bird’s “Words Will Tell.”
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Notable Los Angeles 6/1-6/7
Saturday 6/1: Experience a living literary journal with Enter>Text. This immersive event invites audience members to actively seek out experiences in the space, creating a unique journey for each participant. Created and curated by Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di…
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Voyeurism Via Email
Miranda July’s new project, We Think Alone, sends the personal emails of ten people to your inbox every Monday from July 1 through November 11. Miranda describes the project: I’m always trying to get my friends to forward me emails they’ve sent…
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Life through sidelong glances
Peter Orner‘s first book, Ester Stories, has been re-released with an introduction by Marilynne Robinson. We’ve come to know Peter’s storytelling mastery through the Lonely Voice column here on The Rumpus. The Chicago Tribune noted themes of “distortion, echo and yet clarity…