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The Rumpus At The LA Lit Crawl!
Tonight! The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How! The event features Johnny Alfi, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones, Jillian Lauren, Susan Orlean, our very own managing editor Zoë Ruiz! Hosted by the hilarious and brilliant Jeff Eyres. We’d love…
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Goodbye to All That: A Reading
On Wednesday, October 23rd, long-time Rumpus contributor and editor of the recent collection Goodbye to All that: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, Sari Botton will host an event in Brooklyn featuring reading and stories by contributors to the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all go to the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair! (Some) babies (kind of) understand (basic) math. Algae lamps will save us all. George Bernard Shaw complains about opera attire. Keeping things classy: sets from the Ballets Russes.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
In David’s Inferno: My Journey Through the Dark Woods of Depression, David Blistein retraces the diagnosis of his complicated depressive disorder and deftly captures the elusive nature of the illness: The experience of it being so unspeakably bright out there…
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Pynchon’s Paranoiac Vision
In 1966, when The Crying of Lot 49 was published, Pynchon’s “all-ecompassing paranoiac vision of history” seemed “so kooky” and “far-fetched.” Fast forward to 2013, and Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, a novel focused on events before, during, and after 9/11 “becomes…
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“A Writer’s Writer”
John Williams’ Stoner has unexpectedly become a bestseller in Europe, but the work remains largely unknown in its own country. In “The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard Of,” New Yorker contributor Tim Kreider explores the reasons why Williams has been…
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
“Your Patriarchy Is the Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things: Scenes from a Feminist Youth,” is a McSweeney’s piece that begins with a mother giving birth–asking her doctor not to impose gendered imperatives on her as he tells her to squeeze–and…
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Come To The Frequencies #3 Release Party In LA!
LA Rockers! Go to Stories Books and Cafe tonight at 7 pm for the release of Two Dollar Radio’s Frequencies #3, a biannual journal of artful essays. The release party features the stylistic readings of Rumpus contributor Grace Krilanovich and Sara Finnerty, as well as Trinie Dalton,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, brutalist buildings weren’t designed to stop student riots. Suicide machine art is neat. Don’t worry, animals will save us from the zombie apocalypse. Everyone loves mysterious soviet era group deaths (not counting those involved). Spiders are a pretty scary…
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The Car that Brought You Here Still Runs
After taking medications and following a treatment plan, the hospitalizations had gradually replaced family vacations, and I only seemed to be getting worse. “Is it possible you’re wrong about me?” I asked. “Is it possible this whole thing is a…
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When Hippies and Rednecks Joined Forces
I can’t tell you how much these guys scared Nashville. Texans didn’t know who was boss. Texas Monthly has a must-read oral history of the creation of a new type of country music in Austin in the ’70s. Musicians like…
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Quiller-Couch: Darling Killer
Just in time for the release of Kill Your Darlings, a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, Slate asks, “Who really said you should ‘kill your darlings’?” The answer: not Ginsberg or William Faulkner, both of whom the quote is often…