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Tomorrow: Buy a Manuscript Consultation with A Famous Author
If you’ve ever dreamed of a manuscript consultation with your literary hero, here’s your chance to make it come true. For $1800, you can get advice on your writing from literary rock stars like Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff, Karen Russell,…
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More on Memoir
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond weighs in on Stephen Elliott’s side of the is-memoir-an-acceptable-form-of-literature debate. “[Hamilton] Nolan is right to decry this kind of cynicism,” writes Almond. “But what he gets wrong in his piece is just as important as what…
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Writers vs Commerce
If you’re in New York on January 17th, we urge you to attend the event Writers vs Commerce at the amazing Housing Works Bookstore at 7:00pm. “Commerce and capitalism rarely smile upon the dedicated writer. Too many of our favorite…
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Stalking Harper Lee
How far are you willing to go to know the work, the process, the life of an artist? The Millions’ Amy Whitaker delves into the world of Harper Lee in small town Alabama. While she doesn’t actually meet Harper Lee, Whitaker…
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Happy 40th, Schoolhouse Rock!
“I always heeded the children.” NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Bob Dorough, composer, conductor, and singer of many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs. Dorough discusses some of his favorites, the demos that never made it to the show, and why math songs were…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to go science! We now have the first ever footage of a living giant squid in its natural habitat. Way to go science! Behold the giant predatory Ichtyosaur. Way to go future science! Obviously it is time to steal…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Claire Bidwell Smith
This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Claire Bidwell Smith. Claire is an experienced therapist, specializing in grief counseling, and the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin/Hudson St., February 2012). Gina Frangello interviewed Claire for The Rumpus last…
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Heroin and Acne
Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell gives a bold account of her struggle with acne and heroin in her recent essay at Salon. Caldwell says: I’ve used drugs to numb myself since I was 16. They’ve helped me be there but not…
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“I Bet You Could Sell Thousands of Them”
If there’s anything we in the United States know about economics, it’s that all you need to get rich is a stalwart work ethic and an original idea. If you also happen to have an MBA from Stanford to help…
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Tonight in Brooklyn: THE WORST!
THE WORST! is a hilarious evening of writers, musicians, and other weirdos telling stories about the worst jobs, roommates, and dates they’ve ever had. Tonight’s theme: New Year Nightmares. For only $5 you get stories from Eric Davidson, Ted Travelstead, Gregg Zehentner, Matt Dallow,…
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Maiden Aunt Takes Up Expensive, Time-Consuming Hobby
“How did a woman from a small village in Hampshire come to write six of the most beloved novels in the English language?” Humanities seeks to answer that question with a thorough sketch of Jane Austen’s life as she worked…
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The Sexism That Makes Facebook Run
When Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings, a book about the sexist culture she encountered while working at Facebook during its early days, came out, Melissa Gira Grant paid attention. Grant had worked for a Silicon Valley gossip blog during the same…