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Levin Wins Young Lion’s Award
Adam Levin, author of the former Rumpus Book Club selection, The Instructions has won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award! Congratulations to Adam (and McSweeney’s)!
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Help the NYPL
Help keep the New York Public Library open! The library is taking a severe blow due to major budget cuts (the highest cut in 100 years). They’re asking for donations and letters to elected officials, hoping to prevent the shutdown…
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No Books For Prisoners
More information on the South Carolina jail that refuses to allow its inmates any books or reading materials that are not the Bible, spurring last year’s ACLU lawsuit and a new motion to prevent the policy, which we mentioned last…
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Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities
Cartographer Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities:
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Antonia Crane at RADAR
Rumpus contributor and wordsmith extraordinaire, Antonia Crane will be at tomorrow’s RADAR reading series event. She will be featured during The Hot Probs segment, in which she will alleviate all of your qualms and life problems with her best advice.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in old books: The Cabinet of Curiosity and The Key of Hell (!!!!) When people hold underwater photography contests, everyone wins. Did someone say space boat? Japan sure does like baby robots. Human-powered helicopters are pretty neat too.
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Readers Report Back From… Near and Far
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Near and Far.”
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in San Francisco, The Monthly Rumpus is all happening, free PBR and laughs at the Roxie and Bay to Breakers is here, again, for the 100th time! Monday, May 9th – You’ve been waiting for this for, like,…
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“No Mistakes Left to Make” (Tonight!)
Join us tonight(!) at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd Street) in San Francisco at 7 pm for one of our best events yet. We’ll be rocking with authors Cheryl Strayed, Dylan Landis, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jim Shepard(!!!!)! Not to mention…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a Girls Write Now benefit; Martín Espada reads from his new…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life in a cult used to be so much cooler. Competitive Swinging is an art installation I can get behind. Similarly I am a big fan of typographical illustrations. Life gives you broken china, make broken china brass knuckles. These…
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The Rumpus Interview with Wylie Dufresne
As the owner and chef of Manhattan’s wd~50, Wylie Dufresne is considered a pioneer in the art of molecular gastronomy, the combining of cooking with chemistry. The results are exciting, disorienting, and delicious.