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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This year has been terrible but at least it’s blessed us with a reveal of David Bowie’s 80’s Memphis design obsession. Octavia Butler would ACTUALLY make America great again. Someday soon we might all need a gigantic radiation shield. What I…
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Inheriting Trauma
At The Millions, former Rumpus Managing Editor Zoë Ruiz pens a beautiful piece on how trauma is passed from generation to generation.
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/14–11/20
Monday 11/14: Donna Kaz discusses and signs Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Jilly Gagnon engages with an interactive reading of Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks complicates stereotypes of the lower classes in a comic spoof of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his famous wife, Zelda. Then, in the Saturday Essay, Melissa Kingbird recounts her experience at Standing Rock, on the outskirts of a Native…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Trying to get back to the day to day normalcy. Trying to avoid complacency. Where do we go from here? I think we could all use a story about tickling rats right about now. Brand new accidental dinosaur discovery to…
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Notable Twin Cities: 11/13–11/19
Monday 11/14: Local author Dylan Hicks will read excerpts from his new novel Amateurs (Coffee House Press) and then talk with visual artist Carolyn Swiszcz about art and collaboration in the Twin Cities. Highpoint Center Printmaking, 7 p.m., free. Tuesday…
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Notable NYC: 11/12–11/18
Saturday 11/12: Trump Is Not My President: march against fascism to Trump Tower. Union Square, 14th Street, 12–4 p.m., free. Candlelight vigil for Hope and Human Kindness. Fort Greene Park, 4:30 p.m., free. Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, Rich Ferguson, and Bud…
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Do Not Look Away
Why are we afraid? Because in the two days since the election was called, there have been numerous accounts of harassment and violence, motivated by racism, homophobia, and sexism. These events are happening all over the country, in liberal cities and in…
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Notable Chicago: 11/11–11/17
Friday 11/11: 2015 National Book Award finalist Ross Gay reads from his collection of poems, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Blanc Gallery, 6 p.m., ticket prices vary. At the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Tom Fate,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Trying to get back to normal. Not wanting to normalize it. If you haven’t already, it’s important you check out Day 1 in Trump’s America. I guess we can distract ourselves with future architecture? The butterflies are going too. Do with…
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Native Poetry
Over at the North American Review, Heid E. Erdrich writes about the forthcoming New Poets of Native Nations. The collection, which will be published by Graywolf Press in 2018, will feature works from “21 poets whose first books were published…
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Notable Portland: 11/10–11/16
Thursday 11/10: The Reed College Visiting Writers Series welcomes Nathaniel Mackey to read from his poetry, including his latest collection, Blue Fasa. Eliot Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free. Enjoy a night of the bawdy, the indecent, the delightful, and the total…