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SF Lit Crawl: “For We Have Fallen to Our Knees”
The Rumpus proudly presents: For We Have Fallen to Our Knees SF Lit Crawl Phase 3: Saturday October 19th, 8:30-9:30 p.m. The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd Street San Francisco Readings by: Lucy Corin, Saeed Jones, Mac McClelland, and Brian McMullen! Comedy by:…
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Great Book Dedications!
Here are 30 book dedications that are probably just as good as the book. Included in this amazing round up are Tobias Wolff, John Steinbeck, Charles Bukowski, and C.S. Lewis. Here is one from A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genuis:…
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes triumphed over unimaginable odds to become one of Chicago’s finest…
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The dark side of criticism
“At eleven, I felt that I might actually play anything on this violin,” writes Catherine Tice, the daughter of two musicians. Her essay in Granta, “A Brief History of Musical Failure,” raises the question of what it means to have…
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WRITING AS A KIND OF WAKING DREAM
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don’t know and find something out. In his recent essay featured in The New Yorker, writer T. Coraghessan Boyle discusses the act of…
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Beauty as character
In an elegant and bracing piece for the New Yorker, recent Rumpus interviewee Adelle Waldman looks at the way men look at women. Beauty isn’t an ornament, either for the women who possess it or the best chroniclers of it. In…
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S’up Bros! J-Dog’s Bachelor Party!
Jim Gavin keeps us updated on the sickest bachelor party with the oddest ending ever. Ethan’s bachelor party in Cancun totally WENT OFF, but now we have to take it to another level for J-Dog! In the coming weeks, I’ll…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Leonid Rogozov is your amazing badass of the week. If you like the Mars Rover you’ll love his new snake robot buddy. Mollusc teeth are kinda neat. 11 gateways to hell. Thomas Edison made talking dolls and they were the…
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What Men Talk About When They Talk About Mary Gaitskill
I hate it when men talk about Mary Gaitskill. I call for a permanent moratorium on men gassily discoursing on Mary Gaitskill.
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Beat-Era Collection Up for Auction in San Francisco
If you’re a fan of the Beats, you’ll want to check out the hundreds of books and other objects up for auction in San Francisco this Thursday. Featured items include a copy of On the Road signed by Neal Cassady (“the…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/7 – 10/13
Monday 10/7: Andre Dubus III presents and signs Dirty Love. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/8: Tongue & Groove presents readers Amelia Gray, Jeremy Radin, Pam Noles, Marsha de la O, and music by Kevin Sandbloom. 6:30 p.m. at…