Notable Online: 6/14–6/20
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Nick Flynn
What to Read When You Need to See Someone Else’s Light and Darkness
Carla Rachel Sameth shares a reading list to celebrate ONE DAY ON THE GOLD LINE.
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Notable Online: 4/26–5/2
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Notable Online: 4/19–4/25
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 3/28–4/3
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Notable Twin Cities: 10/27–11/2
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable Chicago: 10/25–10/31
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable NYC: 10/12–10/18
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/7–10/13
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Portland: 9/26–10/2
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
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Notable NYC: 3/9–3/15
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Notable NYC: 1/5–1/11
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Notable NYC: 11/24–11/30
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Notable NYC: 11/3–11/9
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What to Read When You’re Broke Down in Hell
A list of Melissa Stephenson’s down-and-out favorites for when you have a case of the grays.
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Voices on Addiction: Four Poems by Nick Flynn
Behind DOOR NUMBER ONE / is a hammer, to break the wings off angels.
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Notable NYC: 5/19–5/25
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 11/4–11/10
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/23–9/29
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreWatch After Adderall Free Tonight!
After 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 […]
...moreNotable NYC: 5/13–5/19
Sunday 5/14: Juliana Huxtable presents Mucus in My Pineal Gland along with Diamond Stingily and Andrew Durbin. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Wendy Xu, Tobias Carroll, Jimn Han, Jeanann Verlee, and Keegan Lester join the Dead Rabbits Reading Series. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new book Abandon Me, choosing to be celibate for six months, letting go of our own mythologies, and the sexist reaction women receive when they write nonfiction.
...moreNotable NYC: 2/25–3/3
Saturday 2/25: Christian Hawkey and Himanshu Suri join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Emily Brandt and Ali Power join the SOLO reading series. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/26: Nicole Steinberg celebrates the release of Glass Actress with Niina Pollari, Sarah Jean Grimm, and Esther Lin. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 4 p.m., […]
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1: Poetry That Moves Like a City Street
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy Jen’s robust selections and I’ll see you in May. –Anna
...moreThe Way We Were
Things in my own life that make me want to write about them are often things that are unresolved. And I use writing to figure them out. Memoirists Meredith Maran, Dani Shapiro, Ayelet Waldman, Kate Christensen, and Nick Flynn speak in a YouTube video about why they write about their own lives, and the best/worst things that […]
...moreRetracing Steps
Like so many silenced publications before them, Esquire has gone the way of the ear with a new Classics podcast that unearths articles from the magazine’s illustrious eighty-year history. In their latest installment, Rumpus friend and contributor Nick Flynn discusses a series of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essays published in 1936. Listen here.
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My Feelings by Nick Flynn
Lisa Williams reviews Nick Flynn’s My Feelings today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreNick Flynn’s New Book
Nick Flynn, friend and contributor to The Rumpus, has just released My Feelings, a poetry collection described by NewPages as “finely textured” with “a memoirist’s robust conception of personal history.” You can catch Nick Flynn reading at Bookcourt in Brooklyn on July 9th. Check out Flynn’s website for more upcoming events.
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