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James Joyce or Kool Keith?
The premise of the game “James Joyce or Kool Keith?” is simple: “Can you distinguish between sentences written by the Irish novelist and the lyrics of surrealist rapper Kool Keith?” In practice, depending on your level of familiarity with each…
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Notable NYC/SF Columnists Wanted!
Do you love attending readings, lit fests, and other book-world goings-on? Are you always in the know about who’s going to be at which bookstore? We’re looking for two volunteers to take over our “Notable New York” and “Notable San…
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Six
When he retires at the end of the year, he’ll be remembered as one of the best tight ends in NFL history, and as a man whose heart, athletic skills, and bilingual outreach have made him a hero to Spanish-speaking…
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Facebook as Storytelling Medium
From the epic poems of old to postmodernist novels, humans have always told stories. For the Millions, Annie Abrams looks at how Facebook affects our storytelling, applying narrative/literary insights from folks like J. M. Coetzee and Ralph Waldo Emerson. A…
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Frank Sinatra Has an Annotated Profile
Frank Sinatra, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a dark corner of the bar between two attractive but fading blondes who sat waiting for him to say something. So begins…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let me tell you it’s getting harder and harder to not be political on here these days. Don’t you hate it when you accidentally create a two-dimensional quasicrystal? Mapping out a work year’s worth of mouse movement. Moon farms will…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Sandra Gail Lambert
The next Weekly Rumpus brings you fiction from Sandra Gail Lambert! Here’s an excerpt: Running didn’t help. It just turned you into prey. Ruth Ann knew the exact moment she learned this. She had started taking a bookbinding class on…
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Oscar Grant’s America: Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is more than just the story of a black man with bad luck. It is a story about the foundation of the United States of America, and this country was founded on equal parts endurance and lies.
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Remembering A Literary Hoax
Michelle Tea writes about a dark time in the San Francisco literary scene. After the novel Sarah came out to critical acclaim, JT Leroy was a powerful new voice in the queer community. It turns out JT Leroy never existed. She…
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“All Your Life is a Work of Art”
The Atlantic has been hosting a series called “By Heart,” where authors discuss their favorite quotes in literature. Edwidge Dandicat talks about her immigration experience and chooses a passage from a novel by Patricia Engels, which articulates that “trying to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Something we might want to remember at the moment: actually it was budget cuts that killed the great library at Alexandria. Dust devils of Mars (are neat). Perhaps you’d like to look at an 18th Century turned ornament manual. Big…
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LA Lit Crawl: “Show Me How”
The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How LA Lit Crawl Round 2: Wednesday October 23rd 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The Federal Bar 5303 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood Readings by: Johnny Alfi Natashia Deón Kima Jones Jillian Lauren…