Notable Online: 5/10–5/16
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Rebecca Solnit
Notable Online: 4/12–4/18
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Portland: 3/12–3/18
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 3/11–3/17
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Philadelphia: 3/10–3/16
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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The Lenses We Can’t See: A Conversation with Howard Axelrod
Howard Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
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Notable San Francisco: 2/5-2/11
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Anger Is the Engine: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Notable San Francisco: 10/2–10/8
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Notable San Francisco: 7/10–7/16
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 5/8–5/14
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 2/27–3/5
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett
Adam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
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Notable San Francisco: 10/10–10/16
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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What to Read When You Want Strong Women Who Refuse to Shut Up About Sexuality
Steph Auteri shares a list of books to celebrate her book, A DIRTY WORD.
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What to Read When You’re Fed Up with Men
Alexandra Tweten shares a list to celebrate her new book, BYE FELIPE.
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Facing a Lived Reality: A Conversation with Kelly Sundberg
Kelly Sundberg discusses her debut memoir, GOODBYE, SWEET GIRL.
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Olzhas Suleimenov and the Power of Antinuclear Activism
Suleimenov the nomad, the climber of high walls of adventure.
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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do
Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors select writing that speaks to women’s history—past, present, and future.
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Fitting In
Without men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
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Claiming Space: A Conversation with Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane discusses her latest collection, Turf, how where she has lived has shaped her work, and why she loves writing in first-person plural.
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A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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What to Read When You Are a Nasty Woman
A list from Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay to celebrate the release of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
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What Is Being Charted Here?: Talking with Jennifer S. Cheng
Poet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working “in the dark,” and the idea of home.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 4/19–4/25
Wednesday 4/19: Lyrics & Dirges presents “Spring in Translation: Poets on Translation,” featuring Norma Cole, Javier O. Huerta, Alex Cigale, Arceli, Terry Taplin. Free, 7:30 p.m., Pegasus Books Downtown Berkeley. Marcy Dermansky discusses her new book, The Red Car, with Daniel Handler. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Thursday 4/20: Cleve Jones, long time gay and labor activist, (When […]
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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.
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