Notable Online: 9/12–9/18
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Charles Yu
Notable Online: 6/13–6/19
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 3/7–3/13
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Notable Online: 1/24–1/30
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A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
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Notable Online: 11/29–12/5
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Notable Online: 11/15–11/21
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Notable Online: 10/25–10/31
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When Background Becomes Foreground: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
Chinatown comes to vivid life in Yu’s hands.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!
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Notable San Francisco: 2/5-2/11
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/3–2/9
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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What to Read When 2020 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/4–2/10
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 10/16–10/22
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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Monday 3/13: Ryan Ruby, with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, discusses and signs The Zero and the One. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Chen Chen reading and signing When I Grow up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
The gamer story. Regardless of its iteration—D&D, Commodore 64, Nintendo, X Box, LARP—there is the hero, and there is the rest of the gang, subjugated as sidekicks and underlings. The gamer story has a long tradition of tropes and structures, arcs and character elements, at the center of which has always been the hero telling […]
...moreMy Internet Girlfriend or My Girlfriend, the Internet?
In the New York Times novelist Charles Yu, author of the hilarious, tragic, brain-melting How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, recounts his experience falling in love with technology. A private channel had opened up, a vast network of channels, connecting the inside of my head with the insides of other heads. And […]
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Rumpus readers are getting a sweet deal! The good folks over at Litquake are hosting an event on July 10th called the New Literary Vanguard, in which they will “delve into the minds of the new generation of American male novelists,” namely Jesse Ball (who is reading at our next monthly event!), Adam Levin and […]
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Underneath the bleeping trappings of science fiction is a domestic drama: immigrant family, fighting parents, middle-aged father with failed dreams, sensitive son, mother in denial.
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