Notable San Francisco: 3/13–3/19
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Posts Tagged: Jack Hirschman
Notable San Francisco: 5/17–5/23
If 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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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #15: Contemplation + Politics
Thomas Merton, the most prominent Catholic monk of the 20th century, famously left the world to live a cloistered life at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemini in rural Kentucky, taking vows and becoming Father Louis. As many will recall, he described his journey to the cloister in one of the century’s masterpieces of memoir, The […]
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
A brutal Irish girlhood, a medical procedure that can change your race, and a novel narrated by the brilliant Russian inventor of the theremin—all in this week’s Rumpus Books coverage.
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The Viet Arcane by Jack Hirschman
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Jack Hirschman’s The Viet Arcane today in Rumpus Poetry.
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