Monday 11/18: The Porchlight Storytelling Series continues with There Will Be Blood: Stories about Family. Readers include Rumpus pal Sean Keane, Chris Caen, Marianna Cherry, Jay Beaman, Karen Duffin, Brontez Purnell, and Jesse Rimler. $15 adv, $20 door, 8 p.m. at Verdi Club. Tuesday 11/19: City Arts & Lectures presents Cultural Studies 2013 with Mary Roach, […]
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I wanted to present three complicated portraits that raise important questions, not just about what it means to be a porn performer, but what it means to be a sexually open woman
...moreWe would like to thank everyone who came out for the “Let’s Make a Movie” Happy Baby Kickstarter party! For those of you beyond the Bay Area and anyone who couldn’t make the show, you’re in luck. Below are the “Let’s Make a Movie” performances by Jill Sobule, Caitlin Gill, Josh Bearman, Doc Pop, Bucky Sinister, and […]
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Lorelei Lee, longtime Rumpus contributor, lover of books and creative writing scholar, is teaching “Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body,” a six-week class on corporeal creative writing hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture, SF. You can buy tickets and find out more about the course here.
...moreA NIGHT TOGETHER: Presented by The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill On April 6, The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill joined forces and presented a night of fiction, music, comedy and general mayhem at the Highline Ballroom. Despite the large size of the Highline, it was a remarkably cozy evening.
...moreNew York writers, win a chance to read your work alongside Sam Lipsyte at our NYC event on April 6. Lipsyte is one of our featured guests at A Night Together, an event The Rumpus is co-hosting with Tin House and Flavorpill, which will also feature, among others, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Dave Hill, Colson […]
...moreCourtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
...more“There’s something unique about being a member of the sex worker club, an instant camaraderie that bonds one to people who would otherwise be strangers, and this chemistry is something of which Sterry can’t get enough.”
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