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Notable Chicago: 12/2–12/8
Friday 12/2: Poetry Night at City Lit Books! Valerie Hsiung, author of the new book e f g: a trilogy, will be reading from her work, along with Julia Cohen, Hannah Brooks-Motl, and Toby Altman. 6:30 p.m., free. Laura Jane Grace,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just like everything else in the world, architecture is having an identity crisis right now. Let’s all explore the world of North Korea’s wealthy elite. Important news: empty streets look cool at night. Hi I don’t want to freak everyone…
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Notable Portland: 12/1–12/7
Thursday 12/1: Senator Bernie Sanders comes to Portland to share his personal experiences from the campaign trail and read from his book, Our Revolution. Powell’s City of Books, 12 p.m., free. Local author and Olympian Carolyn Wood reads from her…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Lucy was small but very mighty (and tree dwelling). Hey look, it’s a new ancient Egyptian city. The art of gentrification (spoiler alert: these are just aesthetically pleasing graphs). Artificial darkness changed everything. Mapping American metropolises.
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Notable San Francisco: 11/30–12/6
Wednesday 11/30: City Lights celebrates the publication of the magazine, Freeman’s: 2: Family: The Best New Writing on Family, from Grove Press. Editor John Freeman will be on hand. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights. Thursday 12/1: Novelist (Exiles) and short…
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This Week in Essays
For the office drones struggling to come back after the four-day weekend, take heart in James Livingston’s essay for Aeon considering whether work is necessary in our present age. Here at The Rumpus, Helen Betya Rubinstein expresses a sense of dislocation that’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The time has come for a thorough atlas of the literal underworld. I know what you’re wondering, what is the internet’s favorite color? More hard hitting questions: are semester abroad accents bogus or what? San Francisco, your expensive tower is…
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Weekly Geekery
Don’t dis slang—it’s older than you are. Regarding the pain of fish (and humanities-loving robots). Fake scientists are real. Sexism messes up men’s mental health, too. Aimee Bender and the Ladies of Contemporary Fairytale.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Hillary Clinton sought some post-election refuge at Savoy Bookstore in Rhode Island. Borgo Publishing, a small indie publisher, will open an bookstore in Tuscaloosa. Iconic Canadian bookstore owner James Munro passed away at the age of eighty-seven. Washington DC’s Kramerbooks is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Well the good news is now we have a better idea of how to survive on Mars. Quiet down! You’re hurting natural bridges! Here are all the vintage batteries you could hope for today. On the lost islands of Paris.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Rumpus Essay, Casandra Lopez threads together the fragments of self-identity, the love of cars her father and brother were born with, and a lost soul. Through the retelling of the death of her younger brother, Lopez explores the lasting wounds…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On the myth of the nerd and how it got us here. If Russia is going to intervene in our elections we could at least get some great kid books out of it. Let’s all take a trip to Dreamland…