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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished? Split in half food is a good thing to photograph. Abandoned Star Wars sets are too. Headlines of the future…
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Hold On to What You’ve Got
It feels like we created each other from scratch, scribbling in the details and watching ourselves take shape.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Today we have an interview with Emily Rapp. Here, too, for Mother’s Day, is Emily’s “This Mother’s Day, I Am No Longer a Mother.” Congrats to one of the most generous writers I know, Caroline Leavitt, whose novel Is This…
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Links I Like
Years ago, after I graduated from UC Santa Cruz, I couldn’t write because my editor voice seemed to be in overdrive. I would start a sentence and somehow end up with a page filled with words that were neatly crossed…
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/11-5/17
Saturday 5/11: Lit Fest Pasadena 2.0 is on! Enjoy a full day of readings, panels, performances and signings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pasadena’s Central Park. Also in Pasadena, 826LA presents Mini-Golf for Cheaters, with special guests Al Madrigal, Brendan…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
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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 — along with…
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New Releases by Ernest Hemingway
Beneath Hemingway’s estate in Havana, Cuba, 2,000 documents were left forgotten and unpublished in his damp basement. The estate, neglected because of its tricky location, was becoming increasingly decrepit until 2004, when Jenny Phillips, the granddaughter of Hemingway’s editor, founded…
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Fourteen Hills Release Party!
Fourteen Hills is one of our favorite Bay Area literary journals, and you won’t want to miss their release party for issue 19.2 at 7:00 pm on May 15th, at the Verdi Club. The release party will include readings from past…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Alexis Smith
The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 15, is from Alexis Smith! Alexis is the author of the novel Glaciers and a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program in creative writing. She grew up in Alaska and Washington state, and now…
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Coverflip: If Books By Men Were By Women
As Elissa Bassist’s recent Funny Women column “The Next Great American Woman’s Novel” reminded us, books by women tend to get treated a little…differently from books by men. What would it look like if male authors’ novels were treated like Bassist’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You will be missed western black rhino. No, glass really isn’t a liquid. Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either. Now let’s talk about the occult and the father of rocket science. (Under)…