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Notable Chicago 11/3–11/9
Sunday 11/3: Feeling hungry? Pick up tickets to Here’s the Story and nourish your mind and body. It’s Chicago’s only potluck storytelling show. 7:30 PM, free with a dish to share, Stage 773. Tuesday 11/5: Join featured readers Vojislav Pejović, J.H.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
The most provocative piece I read this week: Anna March’s “Paternity Leave” over at The Weeklings. Which professions have the most psychopaths? Jessica Keener interviewed about her new collection, Women in Bed, on The Quivering Pen. Have you seen this?…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Through the Throat
“This past July, I stood over my father’s hospital bed and contemplated suffocating him with his pillow…”
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LAST BOOK I LOVED: THE DOG STARS
Elizabeth Stark tells us why Peter Heller’s THE DOG STARS is the last book she loved.
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Notable NYC: 11/2–11/8
Saturday 11/2: Jim Tolan, Cecilia Woloch and Sean Thomas Dougherty read as part of Poetry Night, hosted by Tolan. BookCourt, 7pm, free. Juliet Escoria, Sean H. Dolye, Andrew Worthington, Kendra Grant Malone, Stephen Tully Dierks. Worthington has a forthcoming novel,…
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: JOE KUBERT, A VisuaLecture by Arlen Schumer
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9pm EST in New York City.
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Old-Fashioned Correspondence
I started trawling through books, visiting local museums and exhibitions and navigating various online archives, looking for examples of interesting correspondence, and, within a few days, I’d found so many fascinating documents – letters, memos, telegrams – that I was…
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Tin House interviews Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is on a roll. Her book, One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apcoalypses is making the rounds and with 103 stories it has a long time to go before people are done talking about it. Check out this interview with…
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“What if poetry isn’t enough?” – Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, the poet, author and playwright who is mostly known for her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” is at it again with, “Lost in Language and Sound: Or How I Found My…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Last night was Halloween and we here at MC are taking the day off. We’ll be back on Monday! (all other Rumpus business will be running as normal!)
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The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
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Literary Puns, Halloween-Style
If you like Timothy Leo Taranto’s literary puns here on the Rumpus, you’ll also enjoy these Halloween-themed literary puns over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Written and illustrated by Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel, they turn your favorite authors into scary monsters,…