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The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Friday, July 27th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm. With…
Publishing Via Google Docs
At HTML Giant, Blake Butler reflects on Marie Calloway’s Google doc pieces: “They are surprising and create a feeling that seems like a secret private virus or a window. There…
Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out this July. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available…
New Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. She is the first Southerner to hold the title since the original laureate, Robert Penn Warren,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yesterday’s news, today! Sci-fi writers remember Ray Bradbury. Big Picture has all the Transit of Venus pictures you could hope for. 1950s China imagines today. Science means getting to look…
“When I Get Fired”
One of our favorite Tumblrs #realtalk from your editor–the brainchild of former GOOD editor Anne Friedman–posts one final medley: When I get fired. Check out our recent interview with Friedman for…
RADAR SUPERSTAR (Tonight!)
Join RADAR Productions in celebration of their ninth birthday! Readings by Ariana Reines, Justin Torres, Ellery Washington, and Zackary Drucke. The San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium at 6pm. Tonight!
Craft and Voice
“Cheryl Strayed uses her voice to emotionally connect with her readers, to use craft towards that end and not in spite of it. Which is all just to say that…
Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Ray Bradbury has passed away at 91. The New Yorker unlocked two Bradbury pieces, the 1947 short story “I See You Never,” and “Take Me Home,” an essay in the…
Longing for Peace
“On Sept. 11, 1948, my father, Khalilullah Nuristani, was born under the same burden of greatness. In retrospect, he must have believed that he could fulfill what had been his…
Announcing The Rumpus Redesign
Perhaps you’ve noticed, but things are a little cleaner around here today. A little brighter, and, hopefully, a little easier to navigate. That’s because our site has a brand new…