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Notable Twin Cities: 12/18–12/24
Sunday 12/18: Magers & Quinn Booksellers hosts a series of book signings all afternoon. From 12–1 p.m., catch YA authors John Coy and Pete Hautman, and then from 2–3 p.m., catch nonfiction authors Chris Niskanen and Mark Neuzil. Both events…
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Notable NYC: 12/17–12/23
Saturday 12/17: Not Straight Against Hate, protest and march. Washington Square, 2 p.m. rally, 5 p.m. march, free. Alex-Quan Pham and Ronald V. Wilson join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Monday 12/19: Joel Allegretti hosts Davidson Garrett,…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #12: What Is Safety?
Oh better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly Then play a sanctimonious part With a pirate head and a pirate heart!! –The Pirates of Penzance At fifteen years old, I was a runaway. It…
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This Week in Short Fiction
In a political climate in which undocumented immigrants are painted as criminals and rapists and half the country is crying for deportation, this week’s story reminds us that immigrants are fathers who love their daughters, who work hard and send…
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Notable Chicago: 12/16–12/22
Friday 12/16: Women & Children First’s annual Recommended Reading Night is back! Rebecca Makkai, Deborah Jian Lee, Emily Gray Tedrowe, Jasmine Sanders, and Thea Goodman will be discussing their top two favorite books of 2016, followed by a Q&A and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Relevant questions part one: So what can cities do now? Relevant questions part two: So how do we fix the internet? Here are your architectural photographs of the year. Dark secrets of the dwarf planet Ceres. I live for never…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
500 years of failed utopias. Ultimately, few things are better than the road signs along Route 66. Rolling churches of Bucharest. The glory days of competitive pipe smoking. Glow-worms are very cool and gross.
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Notable San Francisco: 12/14–12/20
Wednesday 12/14: McSweeney’s presents Emily Carr (Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet). Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books. Michael Chabon reads from his new book, Moonglow. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore. Thursday 12/15: Poet and…
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This Week in Essays
You don’t want to miss Ta-Nehisi Coates’s comprehensive history of the Obama presidency at the Atlantic. And here at The Rumpus, Jenessa Abrams writes on owning her sexuality without allowing for sexual harassment, and what she imagines she will tell her future children about…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Stop everything and read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece “My President Was Black.” The allure of submerged civilizations. Mummering is making a comeback. This is the most genuinely evil computer virus I’ve ever seen. Some notes on documentary film in a post-truth…
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Rumpus Holiday Gifts and Subscriptions!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus. We have plenty of gift options for the well-read optimist or literary child in your life, so order now and choose priority shipping to make sure it gets to you and your loved ones…
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Weekly Geekery
Want to craft spy thrillers? Learn science writing. The science infusing Fantastic Beasts, and where to find it. This is why you talk like a cowboy. Turn off Beyoncé if you want to actually write today—lyrics hurt productivity.