Notable Los Angeles: 11/5–11/11
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreAfter Adderall is a feature film by Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott reimagining the absurd experience of having one’s book translated into a film. The movie stars Mickaela Tombrock and Bill Heck and features Lili Taylor, James Urbaniak, Ned Van Zandt, and Michael C. Hall. There are cameos from authors including Susan Orlean, Nick Flynn, Evan […]
...moreRich Cohen discusses his new book The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, writing book proposals, and interviewing rock stars.
...moreOn Saturday, October 17th, join Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott, along with Susan Orlean, Jerry Stahl, and Evan Wright, for a panel discussion hosted by Derrick C. Brown about what it’s like to have your memoir adapted for television and film. All proceeds will benefit 826LA! You can find more info and purchase your tickets here!
...morePatrick O’Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.
...moreForgive me if I’ve said it before, but now that I’m working dad duty without heroin I can see why I needed it.
...morePhobic or diligent? You be the judge. All fodder to feed into the Daddy neurosis machine.
...moreThe great thing about having a two-year-old in the house is you feel your mortality like a happy little gun to your head.
...moreDays when my daughter hates me, I console myself that this may be a sign of her discerning nature.
...moreElectric Literature has a new review up for Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl‘s latest book, Happy Mutant Baby Pills: Jerry Stahl’s Happy Mutant Baby Pills is a hurricane of comedic and satirical horrors involving drug abuse, violence, manic lovers (including their manic sex lives), and ungodly revenge against the United States. Stahl ventures unapologetically through the darkest imaginable places. And for […]
...moreIf you grow up in a tense house, you don’t just get used to tension, you become tension. A tension conductor. Nervousness is like any other household pollutant…
...moreBut musical child toilets! The problem on the technical level is that none of the Amazon descriptions would say exactly what kind of music we’d be hearing.
...moreWriter 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.”
...moreLos Angeles! Comes see Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl and Marc Maron at The Last Bookstore this Friday, November 8th at 7:30 PM. Jerry will be reading from his latest book, Happy Mutant Baby Pills and Marc will be reading from his book, Attempting Normal. This is why the rest of the country is jealous of […]
...moreTo promote his new book Happy Mutant Baby Pills, OG Dad author Jerry Stahl rode around with writer/director/producer Larry Charles, trying to dig up endorsements from those famous friends. The result is probably the only book trailer to be posted on Funny or Die—and definitely the only book trailer to feature cameos from Jason Schwartzman, Ben […]
...moreFamily Fun With Dora The Explorer And Her Troubling Butt-Button
...moreIt’s no secret, the amount of crying you have to listen to when you have a baby is astronomical. Before this, my exposure to crying females was pretty much limited to those I was in a relationship with
...moreMy daughter got her first bill today. $25, a cancellation fee for blowing off an appointment with a Dr. Papoolian.
...moreI read in The New York Times about feces transplants—quite possibly the future of post-antibiotic intestinal medicine—and the future of my entire family suddenly seemed rosy.
...moreSo I’m standing in front of the fridge, door open, wondering more-or-less what happened to my life, when I suddenly remember I have an eight month old baby in my arms.
...moreBefore what happened happened at Sandy Hook Elementary, I was going to write about back pain. Specifically “boomer back”—dark secret of infant–spawning post-50 boomerdom—a malady specific to “older parents”
...moreAs if the recent presidential campaign was not disturbing enough, in the middle of it, my five month old morphed into Donald Trump.
...moreA baby is like a Rorschach. An occasionally adorable, periodically screamy blob onto which we project our own fears, delights and inner damage. Or something.
...moreIdeas, as famed vegetarian and human breast milk fan, George Bernard Shaw, once said, are not responsible for the people who embrace them.
...moreIt’s been forty-three days since Baby N came in for landing. Maybe too early to wax sentimental, but not, I hope, to revisit the particular weirdness of Mondo Maternito.
...moreMy fear, as a late-in-the game dad, was that somehow I’d end up in diapers before my baby was out of them.
...moreFirst time away from the baby, and the world is a strange new place. Before leaving, I spent an acid-without-the-acid-esque few days contemplating the tiny faux-hawked nipple-sucker perched atop E’s monstro breast.
...moreDon’t let the idyllic lead full you. The night behind us has been so Game of Thrones-y that even now the blood squishes underfoot, the floor is littered with cast-off scarlet rags, stained plastic gloves.
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