Notable Online: 2/28–3/6
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Ada Calhoun
Notable Los Angeles: 3/9–3/15
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 8/17–8/23
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Notable NYC: 11/24–11/30
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/25–7/1
Literary events in and around L.A. this month!
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Notable NYC: 6/2–6/8
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway through 2017
A list of Rumpus editors’ favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful.
...moreNotable NYC: 7/1–7/7
Sunday 7/2: Jennifer Soong, Rawaan Alkhatib, and Sara Deniz Akant present books from Futurepoem. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 3 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/4: Macy’s launches fireworks. East River – Midtown, Sunset, Free. Thursday 7/6: Scaachi Koul presents One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 5/22–5/28
Monday 5/22: CB Lee and Sarah Kuhn join together for a reading, signing, and panel discussion. 3:30 p.m. at Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library. Laini Giles discusses and signs The It Girl and Me: A Novel of Clara Bow. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Andrew Roe discusses and signs Where You Live. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
...moreNotable Portland: 5/18–5/24
Thursday 5/18: Sung Yim and Kate Jayroe read from their latest work. Daedalus Books, 7 p.m., free. The Comma Reading Series presents Penelope Scambly Schott and Marjorie Sandor as they read from their latest work. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreNotable NYC: 5/13–5/19
Sunday 5/14: Juliana Huxtable presents Mucus in My Pineal Gland along with Diamond Stingily and Andrew Durbin. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Wendy Xu, Tobias Carroll, Jimn Han, Jeanann Verlee, and Keegan Lester join the Dead Rabbits Reading Series. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
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Sound & Vision: John Congleton
Allyson McCabe speaks with GRAMMY-winning producer/engineer John Congleton about what it’s like to make music in today’s technological and economic environments, and the benefits of being open to adaptation.
...moreThe Many Libraries of the New York Public Library
Not every library can be a grand palace. Consider for a moment the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library, a far less glamorous workhorse than the more famous cathedral of books located at Bryant Park. Over at the New Yorker, Ada Calhoun recounts her experiences in some of the smaller library branches around the […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no one can really afford, to stay in and talk shop (or not, depending on how your writing’s been this year). That’s right: […]
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