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1Q84 Book Trailer
Haruki Murakami’s book trailer for his forthcoming 1Q84 is intergalactic. See below:
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/12-9/18
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/12: Join us and our friends at the Believer Magazine for Let’s Talk About us, September’s Monthly Rumpus-tonight at the Make-Out Room, 7PM $10. Featuring brilliant authors Michelle Tea, Susan Straight, Jesus Angel Garcia, David…
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The Post-Mubarak Literary Scene
What is the state of Egyptian literature after the revolution? Under the dictatorial reign of Mubarak, the literary scene was stifled, plagued with heavy censorship, primarily existing in “pockets of activity”—one of which being the avant-garde publisher Merit, founded by…
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Canteen Magazine’s Hot Authors Project
Writers are reclaiming their rightful hotness with Canteen Magazine’s new project, Hot Authors—because we are all immune to the deluge of celebrity sex symbols. Thus, this is hotness at its most literary. They’ve gone through sixteen authors, all paired with…
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To Teach Or Not to Teach?
The ever-contentious subject of teaching creative writing is up for discussion. You can teach the elements, but there are always the “intangibles that cannot be taught.” Roxane Gay is inciting a discussion on HTMLGiant, laying some foundation for all of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #102
SOCKS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing socks.
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Right Place, Wrong Time
We have now featured seven “Rumpus Readers Report” collections (“Family/Holidays,” “Neighborhood,” “Impossible Love,” “Wants/Needs,” “The Gift,” “Near and Far,” and “Running Away“); but let’s be honest, seven is not nearly enough. We’re hungry for more of your writing, and this…
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O’Rourke’s “Theory vs. Practice”
The author of this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection, Meghan O’Rourke is in the new issue of the Paris Review. You can read her poem, “Theory vs Practice” here to get excited for this.
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“Let’s Talk About Us” (Tonight!)
This September’s Rumpus event is the ultimate San Francisco literary collaboration. We’re teaming us with The Believer Magazine to bring you a night of literary joy! Join us September 12th (TONIGHT!), 7pm at the Make-out Room, 3225-22nd Street, San Francisco!…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/12-9/18
This week in New York, an Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading at The New School, non-fiction with The Believer at KGB Bar, Pitchapalooza, Poetry from the Rooftops, The Center for Fiction celebrates The Literarian, a reading with author Tananarive Due, and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I didn’t want to put my books on your shelves anyway, Ikea. The Chinese are crushing us both in industry AND whimsy! We are also being beaten by the Finnish in the important buildings on boats department. Welcome to 2011,…
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Drawing Inspiration From Your Insides
“I quit smoking on Halloween 1988. In December 1988 I was walking to work in a snowstorm when I had the biggest sneeze of my life and afterwards found in my hand a clump of living tissue the size, shape,…