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Michelle Tea’s Book Party Looks Awesome
Food, drink, fortune-telling, live music…is there anything about the release party for Michelle Tea’s new novel that doesn’t sound amazing? The book is Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, new from McSweeney’s McMullens; the refreshments are pierogi, chocolate, and cocktails; and the entertainment includes Annah…
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Notable San Francisco 5/6-5/11
Don’t forget your mamas this Sunday, friends. Monday 5/6: ODC teams with visual artists, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers for The Deep End, a performance examining “psychiatric and/or neurological disorders through artistic and scientific/medical lenses.” Free, 7pm. Tuesday 5/7: FlipSide…
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Nick Cave Monday #34: “The Ship Song”
“The Ship Song” can induce emotions of love, lust and affection. It’s a sexy and soft ballad. If you listen to the song and no one is around to kiss or fondle, there is no shame in showing your affection…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If your Cinco de Mayo was too excelente for you to spend much time online, here’s a recap of what happened on the Rumpus this weekend. An aquatic wonderland of a comic from Yumi Sakugawa. “What if we are stuck?…
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Notable New York: 5/6-5/12
Monday 05/06: Ben Greenman heads to the Franklin Park Reading Series to celebrate the release of his new novel The Slippage along with Sam Lipsyte, Toure, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Amelia Gray. The first fifty people at the reading get…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are in to being bummed out, you should probably read about what’s been happening to Harper Lee. I am sort of in love with this portable solar power outlet. This just in: Europeans are all about eating each…
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Multiplicity
As I held the passport in my hand, I realized that both marriage and gender have a life beyond my own. Somewhere, my citizenship gender had been on file. Somewhere, a record of me existed that over-ruled my daily existence.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
So I’m not sure anyone can dispute the fact that there’s no money in book review sections…if that were a genuine argument to be made, basically every book review section in every major paper but the New York Times wouldn’t…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ghost Lives
“Here’s what you do when that pile starts talking. You light a match. Light it all on fire and watch it burn with a combination of sadness and elation.”
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Links I Like
On Tuesday afternoon at a diner in Echo Park, I interviewed a writer and he told me a story, violent and personal. He told the story suddenly, while I was smiling. Are you serious? I said, which seems to be…
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Notable Los Angeles 5/4-5/10
Saturday 5/4: The Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts presents Vision and Voices of the Valley II: The Cultural Landscape of L.A. Poetry. Hosted by Mike ‘The Poet’ Sonksen and featuring the poetry of Jessica Wilson, Kimberly Cobian, Traci…
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The Wind-Up [Marathon] Chronicle
Only once you’ve climbed the steep slope and emerged onto level ground do you begin to feel how much you’ve been hurting up till then. Haruki Murakami, author of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, who has…