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Weekly Geekery
Your new chatbot therapist recommends volunteering. Womp womp: those productivity hacks are making you less productive. A quick-and-dirty primer to the “Anthropocene.”
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Chicago’s bookstores, bracing against the looming arrival of a physical Amazon store, are stronger than ever. Check out this roundup of local indie stores. Fišer bookstore, a Prague institution since the 1930s, is closing. Korea’s oldest bookstore closed fourteen years ago, but…
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Post-Holiday Rumpus Sale!
Got a little holiday gift money burning a hole in your pocket? Need a mug for all the coffee you’ll be drinking to catch up on deadlines? Heading on a winter vacation and need a cool tee-shirt? We’ve got the…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope you had a merry Christmas! Here’s a comic from Brandon Hicks on Santa vs. God. As Standing Rock quiets and the Water Protectors move to the next phase of resistance, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. studies the wašíču,…
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week at Guernica’s newly re-designed website, author Jean McGarry has a short story, “Come to Me,” about an abusive relationship and the tangled dynamics of power and devotion that can hold its victims in place. That was day four;…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/21–12/27
It is year’s end and a time for holidays. Some folks will leave town, some will stay home and drink egg nog while others abstain, some will exchange gifts, some will get happy, some will get depressed. But few will…
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This Week in Essays
At Lit Hub, Jonathan Reiber, a former speechwriter for the Obama administration, weighs our souls and our words during this political transition. Chivas Sandage writes for The Rumpus about helping the men in our lives to fully understand the constant state of…
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Weekly Geekery
Is Star Wars the Death Star of science fiction? Rat nirvana: being tickled till your ears turn pink. 250-million-year-old rocks might soothe science-religion conflict.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Best-selling author James Patterson is handing out bonuses to bookstore employees once again, celebrating the people who make best-selling authors possible. The Daily Beast has a roundup of some of the best independent bookstores across the country. As if you…
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The Way Out Is Through
At Dame Magazine, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist writes with her inimitable deadpan humor and clarity on finding solace in the general population’s depression following the recent election’s alarming results. As a person who lives with clinical depression, Bassist writes that:…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Ruby Hansen Murray explores the surreal landscapes of historic Native American locations turned educational tourist hotspots in the Saturday Rumpus Essay, as she journeys with the Osage Nation Historical Preservation Department to Cahokia, the site of an ancient agrarian…
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Dan Weiss’s morning Coffee
As we approach the madness that is the holidays and the end of 2016, we’ll be taking the next two weeks off. In the meantime here’s a quick guide to appeasing spirits in the hopes of making it through the…