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Literature, Meet Video Games

  • The Rumpus
  • April 10, 2014
Over at The Millions, Maxwell Neely-Cohen argues that video games and literature have more in common than we think. Moreover, he suggests that the two genres could benefit significantly from…
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A Map for Book Lovers

  • Mary Allen
  • March 20, 2014
If you love San Francisco and its literary scene as much as we do, you will be smitten with this interactive map of the Literary City. Find booksellers, places, and…
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Are Science and Literature at Odds?

  • Serena Candelaria
  • February 19, 2014
What role can a knowledge of scientific concepts play in understanding literature? It comes as no surprise that “biological science remains more-or-less completely un-talked about in English seminar,” as M.M.…
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The New York Comic & Picture-Story Symposium: R. Sikoryak

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • December 20, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9…
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Literature in Your Skin

  • Ashley Perez
  • November 15, 2013
If you need a few minutes to break away from your day, why don’t you head on over to Tattoo Lit, where the word is made flesh. It is updated…
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The Rumpus At SF Lit Crawl!

  • Ashley Perez
  • October 18, 2013
Tomorrow Night! The Rumpus proudly presents: For We Have Fallen to Our Knees! The Rumpus is excited to participate in the San Francisco Lit Crawl! Come see readings by: Lucy…
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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with R. Sikoryak & Kriota Willberg

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • August 2, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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Against Explanation, or How to Write Fiction About Mormons (Or Anybody)

  • Ryan McIlvain
  • July 26, 2013
The kind of knowledge that good fiction can impart is incomplete knowledge, knowledge that admits its gaps and urges a certain caution because of them
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Better Books, Better Brains

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 21, 2013
If you’ve ever felt like reading good literature gives you more comfort and insight than any self-help book ever could, you’re probably onto something. Scientists at the University of Liverpool…
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Literary Puns

  • Timothy Leo Taranto
  • January 11, 2013
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
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The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • January 9, 2013
Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel, the co-editors of Recommended Reading, discuss the ins and outs of editing an ambitious literary project.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno

  • Gina Frangello
  • November 18, 2012
"I’m exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance." Novelist, theorist, historian and blog-girl, Kate Zambreno gives up a meaty, definitive interview.
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