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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book
Baby, it’s cold outside. When the holiday season ends, we’re left with the prospect of two or three months of dreary, gray days punctuated by snow bomb cyclones and unseasonably warm respites from the...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we thought it was especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...
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Winning Always Involves Sacrificing: Talking with Dickson Lam
Dickson Lam’s dazzling debut memoir, Paper Sons, which came out in March from Autumn House Press, traces Lam’s journey from a teenage graffiti writer growing up in a housing project in San Francisco,...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 10/4–10/10
Thursday 10/4: Poet, mediator, and speaker Yung Pueblo reads from his new collection of poetry and prose, Inward. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Lucy Jane Bledsoe reads from her...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we think it is especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...
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The Mentor Series: Allie Rowbottom and Maggie Nelson
I’m profoundly grateful to open The Mentor Series with this interview between Allie Rowbottom, debut author of the compelling memoir Jell-O Girls and her mentor, Maggie Nelson, author of nonfiction,...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ayşe Papatya Bucak
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Ayşe Papatya Bucak about her debut collection, The Trojan War Museum: And Other Stories (W. W. Norton & Company, August 2019), drawing on fairy tales and mythology...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 12/5–12/11
Thursday 12/5: The December Slamlandia Poetry Open Mic and Slam will feature a performance by NPS Haiku Champion Ben Yisrael. Open Mic begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the final WoWPS qualifying slam...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 3/12–3/18
(Events are being canceled or postponed ongoing. Please check with with an event venue for confirmation that an event is still on. And, if you’re not feeling well, stay home and rest—and order books...
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Notable Online: 11/29–12/5
Monday 11/30: Tauno Biltsted, Anca L. Szilágyi, and Kris Waldherr discuss Politics of Then and Now in Historical Fiction. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free. Matvei Yankelevich, John...
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