Notable San Francisco: 1/23-1/29
This Week in San Francisco Monday 1/23: Brazilian Silent Film night features Margarette’s Feast a “modern silent masterpiece using the style and techniques of Brazil’s cinematic past.” Free, 6pm Hotel…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/23-1/29
This week in New York, Ben Marcus reads from The Flame Alphabet; Mark Strand at 192 Books; E.L. Doctorow at Strand; New York Magazine and Longreads team up at Housing…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
By the year 2000 all women will be amazonian super women. Mental Floss has the alternative presidential candidate information you desire. The Russian mafia understands the art of the tombstone.…
Science Saturday
I’ve applauded Anonymous in the past, but this is not cool. The second you start drafting people into your cause without their knowledge, you become the thing you rail against.…
Saturday Morning Links
The weather app on my phone has stopped giving me the temperature and has started simply laughing at me. That is, when it’s not giving me the temperature in Kelvin…
Pick of the Week
Tupelo Hassman received Litseen’s Pick of the Week for her reading at January’s Monthly Rumpus. Congrats, Tupelo! If you missed her reading at the event, don’t worry: Litseen caught it…
Friday Features
We’re ending the week with a big ol’ Rumpus bang. Steve Almond kicked off a brand-new column, THE WEEK IN GREED. Plus, Rick Moody is back in action with a…
New Readers Report Theme: New Beginnings
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “New Beginnings.” Please…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science can now tell you if you’re going to live to be 100 AND let you watch comets crashing into the sun. Meanwhile, on the terrible news front: the Supreme…
W. Kamau Bell, Tomorrow!
On Friday, January 20th (tomorrow!) comedian and Rumpus bud W. Kamau Bell will be performing at Amnesia in San Francisco. The show will also feature lots of good music, including…
Appearing in Public
The Believer is teasing us with ongoing highlights of a conversation between Sheila Heti and Joan Didion before posting the interview in its entirety. In this snippet Didion discusses writing…
Homeless at the S.F. Public LIbrary
“What started as a tough situation – staff members worried about people washing up in the bathrooms, or acting badly – turned into an opportunity. The library, which has always…