Ben Tanzer
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What to Read When Your Plate Is Overfull
Elizabeth B. Splaine shares a reading list to celebrate DEVIL’S GRACE.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Tanzer
Ben Tanzer discusses his new essay collection Be Cool, why running is so important to him, and not being precious about his work.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Ben Tanzer
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Ben Tanzer! Ben writes a very funny letter in an attempt to woo one of you to be his new husband and join him and his existing family…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
“If there was one thing I learned from Tess Durbeyfield, Lily Bart, and Constance Chatterly,” writes Gina Di Salvo in the Saturday Essay, “it was not to get trapped.” When Di Salvo becomes a mother, classic works of literature that…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I try to…consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Will Be Blood
It is 1980, I am twelve years old, and there is so much blood.
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Notable Chicago: 9/5—911
Friday 9/5: David Tabak, author of the short story collection Lather Rinse Repeat, presents a reading of two short stories at City Lit Books. 6:30 p.m. The Naked Girls Reading is back this month to entertain on the theme “Back…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, “Making the Leap,” by Grant Snider. Michael Wong, in his very funny and poignant essay “Jack of Hearts,” explains how the idea of magic, as defined by his grandfather, helped him to accept the death of his father and…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: End of Story
The cool story would be how we went home that night, dropped everything, booked our trip, and were soon having a threesome…under the ocean spray that endlessly cascades over San Sebastian’s horseshoe beachfront. But that isn’t what happened.
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Notable Chicago 12/8–12/14
Sunday 12/8: The Uptown Poetry Slam keeps up its weekly schedule. Stop in early for the open mic, and then stay late for the slam itself. 7 p.m., $6, The Green Mill. Monday 12/9: It’s a busy week for The Moth. They kick…
