The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib discusses his new collection, A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER.
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Posts Tagged: Greil Marcus
Notable San Francisco: 1/31–2/6
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Hitch in the Voice
I hear a man singing for his life, desperate in a way he would never be again and had never been before.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #78: Conceived as a Playlist
Shadowbahn […] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #13: Bob Dylan
That’s how I experience the world, courtesy of Bob. I’m lucky. Bob will get you through.
...moreOakland Is The New Everything
The lineup for the first annual Oakland Book Festival has just been announced. But you don’t have to wait until the festival—on May 31st—to put on a tweed jacket and tell your favorite Jack London story on Telegraph Avenue. On Thursday, April 30th, Greil Marcus and Justin Desmangles (of the Before Columbus Foundation) will hold […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Cultural Constellations of Agee and Smith
But who said a chronology had to be straightforward?
...moreNotable New York, This Week 11/2 – 11/8
This week in New York, Performa 09 festival of performing arts inspired by Futurist film, music and literature opens, Bomb throws a Fall Issue Launch Party, Books & Quiche Reading Series is back with Yiyun Li and Salvatore Scibona, Light Industry and Triple Canopy team up to bring you a 14-hour film installation, Robert Wilson’s […]
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