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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Would anyone like to join me on a road trip to find all the forgotten arrows pointing across America? Did you know that Galapagos tortoises can have 1,360 babies in their lifetimes? On the origins of Red Riding Hood (they…
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Notable Chicago 11/17–11/23
It’s a tough call this week. Most days feature two fantastic events happening concurrently. Choose wisely! Sunday 11/17: Sunday Salon features its monthly prose reading series at Black Rock Pub. Features include Don De Grazia, Tony Trigilio, Catherine Theis, and…
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Lit-Link Round-up
I want a girl who reads. “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” by Ariel Levy. Brace yourself. And brace yourself in an entirely different way for what the big publishing looks like on the inside. Enter the Indie Writer Deathmatch. Okay, personally I’d…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Goodnight Nobody by Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan’s stories are snapshots. Stark vignettes. We see her characters in the middle of conflict, just at the moment of their potential undoing. In Rohan’s collection, Goodnight Nobody, she assembles thirty short stories that show each character walking a…
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LAST BOOK I LOVED: Americanah
Tomi Obaro tells us why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERICANAH is her Last Book I Loved.
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Notable NYC: 11/16–11/22
Saturday 11/16: Elizabeth Clark Wessel and Vladisalv Davizon read works in translation along with selections of their own poems. Molasses Books (Facebook), 8pm free. Laurent Binet discuses his new novel, HHhH with Paul La Farge. HHhH (2012) is translated from…
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All the Buzz
As Stephen Elliott pointed out, people just can’t stop talking about new Buzzfeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald. Roxane Gay wrote that Isaac is going to be “an intelligent and eminently capable editor.” This isn’t the first time that Roxane has written about his editorial…
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New roles for artists
“What matters is to know what you want and pursue it,” says Smith. She urges us to recognize that suffering is part of the package for everyone. “Life is going to be difficult.” Ride with it, she urges. Nothing is perfect.…
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“You are a true man.” A letter writer’s delight!
In what has to be one of the best examples of correspondence history, Letters of Note has published a fan letter from a young Bram Stoker to Walt Whitman: “The four years which have elapsed have made me love your…
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Literature in Your Skin
If you need a few minutes to break away from your day, why don’t you head on over to Tattoo Lit, where the word is made flesh. It is updated regularly with submissions of tattoos inspired by literature. Virginia Woolf,…
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The Letters Festival
The Letters Festival is happening now in Atlanta. A three day literature festival with writing workshops, panels, and readings. If you’re in town, go see our very own Rumpus editor Roxane Gay at The Goat Farm Arts Center at 6:30…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Real talk, if you haven’t yet you should really read Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. New advances in the world of dog origin theories. Paper dresses used to be a pretty big thing. Here are some pictures of…