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Wednesday 9/19: Essayist, poet, New Yorker poetry editor, and director of the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Kevin Young will be reading from Brown, his newest collection of poetry. St. Mary’s College (Hagerty Lounge, De La Salle Hall) in Moraga at 7:30 p.m. Who controls the money for the world’s wealthiest? Peter […]
...moreIf you can make only one event this week, don’t miss the Oakland Book Festival on Sunday, 5/21. This all-day festival features more than 100 writers, 50 panels, and lots of tabling and networking. And, The Rumpus will be there! Wednesday 5/17: Rakesh Satyal (Lambda Award winner for Blue Boy) reads from his new novel, No One Can […]
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One day. Seven hours. Over a hundred writers and fifty events, including a Rumpus panel you won’t want to miss!
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Chew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
...moreRupi Kaur’s poetry collection, Milk and Honey, has sold almost half a million copies since its publication by Andrews McMeel Publishing last year, according to Anisse Gross in Publishers Weekly. While that is the company’s best selling poetry collection, it isn’t the only one that’s sold well: “We saw that there was this generation of young […]
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If we’re honest with ourselves, the great loves of our lives are often platonic.
...moreWhat if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers—like Coffee House Press, Nouvella, Copper Canyon, Dorothy, and City Lights—turn up at your local bookstore? Small Press Distribution, the tiny non-profit that makes sure your favorite indie books are stocked on store shelves, is holding a […]
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Anisse Gross reviews The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits today in Rumpus Books.
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Writer and Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl sits down for a candid chat about memoir, novels, shame, parenthood, being pigeonholed, and managing “the neat trick of being an outsider in all genres.”
...moreIf your fingers aren’t too frozen to click, here’s the weekend Rumpus roundup. First, our film editor Anisse Gross reviewed Hilton Als’s new book White Girls: Each time I took it out of my bag, people glanced at me wide-eyed, as if merely the title White Girls was too much out-loud talk about race in public. Then Joshua […]
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We talk to filmmaker Brian Lindstrom about his latest project, Alien Boy, the creative process behind documentary filmmaking, and his personal and artistic relationship with his wife, Cheryl Strayed.
...moreIf you were too busy preparing kickass hors d’oeuvres for your Oscars party to read The Rumpus this weekend, we understand, and we’re here to help. Here’s what you missed. An enchanting comic about an invisible crown by Yumi Sakugawa. Anisse Gross interviews Joshua Mohr about his latest novel Fight Song and giving every idea, no […]
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Anisse Gross talks with Joshua Mohr about his latest novel, “a call to arms against complacency, a rally towards reclaiming one’s own individuality.”
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Andrew McCarthy, likely best known to you as a member of the iconic Brat Pack, with his roles in Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, has forged a second career as a travel writer. Out with a new memoir, The Longest Way Home, about traveling as a way to settle down, McCarthy touches on issues of fatherhood and commitment.
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The skillfully understated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins up again with screenwriter Jon Raymond to give us Meek’s Cutoff.
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