Notable Online: 9/5–9/11
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: sam lipsyte
Notable NYC: 1/18–1/24
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Philadelphia: 11/12–11/18
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/1–6/7
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 3/9–3/15
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/28–2/3
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Portland: 1/24–1/30
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/23–1/29
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable NYC: 1/19–1/25
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 1/12–1/18
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 2/21–2/27
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Analyzing the Why: A Conversation with Jonathan Reiss
Jonathan Reiss discusses his debut novel Getting Off, his transition from actor to writer, his own past drug use, and our country’s current opioid epidemic.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Schiff
Rebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
...moreShort Revolution
Great novels also experiment and innovate, but a short story can make a never-before-seen formal leap and then peace out, before you’re even sure what’s happened. At Electric Literature, Rebecca Schiff introduces us to the authors who have revolutionized the short story in recent years.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Colin Winnette
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Colin Winnette about his new novel Haints Stay, writing ambiguity, and playing against the expectations of genre.
...moreYou Don’t Finish Anything, You Just Turn Away
Over at Granta, Sam Lipstye and Diane Cook chat about spontaneity, artistic permanence, and how time travel’s actually a bit of a burden: I would love to make minor adjustments to most of the sentences I’ve put out into the world. Major adjustments as well. Why not? It’s not that I would make them better. […]
...moreNotable NYC: 2/15–2/21
Saturday 2/15: Luna Miguel, Jacob Steinberg, and Gabby Bess read poetry. Mellow Pages, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 2/16: Stephen Elliott and Julia Fierro join Gina Frangello as she reads from her novel A Life in Men (February 2014). Fierro’s forthcoming Cutting Teeth (May 2014) examines thirty-somethings attempting to enjoy a beach house with their children. […]
...moreNew Fiction Confab on 4/13
Texas readers, this year’s New Fiction Confab in Austin looks completely irresistible. There will be talks with writers like Sam Lipsyte, Susan Steinberg, and Rumpus Book Club author Manuel Gonzales; creative-writing workshops for writers of all ages; and a lit fair with local publishers like Unstuck, A Strange Object, and American Short Fiction. The best news of all: […]
...moreA Stellar Episode of a Stellar Lit Podcast
If you’re on the lookout for great podcasts about writing and writers (who isn’t?), you’ll want to stick Litquake’s LitCast in your earbuds. Their latest episode features novelist Joshua Mohr and Guggenheim fellow/Believer Book Award winner Sam Lipsyte, live at San Francisco’s Tosca Café (which, just so everyone knows, is actually a bar, not a café, and […]
...moreSam Lipsyte’s “The Fun Parts” Launch Party at Le Poisson Rouge!
Hey New York! Come out this Friday, March 8th to Le Poisson Rouge for Sam Lipsyte’s “The Fun Parts” Launch Party! The event will feature three Rumpus interviewees: writer Sam Lipsyte, comedian Dave Hill, and musician Mike Doughty. The show starts at 7:30 and you can reserve your tickets online now for $12 or get […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Chris Bachelder
Novelist Chris Bachedler discusses crafting his latest book, Abbott Awaits, about a self-conscious professor.
...moreNotable New York, This Week 9/20 – 9/26
This week in New York Josh Neufeld gets graphic, How I Learned teaches us how to inhale, FDG Reading Series returns, Guillermo del Toro signs book two of three, Sam Lipsyte joins Brando Skyhorse, Arrested Development parties, and DUMBO Arts Festival takes over Brooklyn.
...moreTHE JUMP OFF: The Sam Lipsyte Players
As part of our event, A Night Together, which was co-presented with Tin House and Flavorpill on April 6, we held a contest to give writers the chance to win an opportunity to read on stage with Sam Lipsyte. Entrants of the contest, The Jump Off, were asked to submit a fictional work of 300 […]
...moreA Night Together
A 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.
...moreJump-Off Winners Announced
Our Jump-Off contest was enthusiastically received. We’re happy about that. We’d like to thank all who put in the time and thought to enter. We had asked entrants to submit a short work using as a jump-off point one sentence or sentence fragment from Sam Lipsyte’s novel The Ask. We got many compelling and varied […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/5 – 4/11
This week in New York The Rumpus throws an A Night Together with Sam Lipsyte, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Jeff Lewis, Jump-Off winners and more, Jamaica Kincaid and Rick Moody help collect Books for NY Schools, Richard Nash and Jim Hanas debate fiction and technology, Gary Shteyngart and Amy Sohn host a Shabbat dinner, Robert […]
...moreThe Jump-Off: Read with Sam Lipsyte
New 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 […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and Zoe Kazan gives him one, and Atlas Obscura presents an international celebration of curious and […]
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