This Week in Short Fiction
In this, the first week of June, a band of storytellers joined hands and exhaled sweet stories that rolled out like a giant park full of empty hammocks waiting to hold readers through the long summer...
View ArticleFuck Amazon: An Evening with The Rumpus
If you’re in San Francisco this weekend, don’t miss our LitCrawl event, “Fuck Amazon: An Evening with The Rumpus”!Saturday, October 18th, 8:30–9:30 p.m., The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San...
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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack
The Other Joseph, Skip Horack’s incredible new novel, tells the story of a lonely felon and offshore oil rig worker, Roy Joseph, who—years after the death of his parents and the disappearance of his...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no...
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex #14: Liz Prato
I can’t remember exactly when I met Liz Prato. She claims down below that it was at Wordstock, that lovely ink-stained Portland conclave. But I’m always so stoned those weekends that I wind up at...
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The Rumpus Interview with Chanan Tigay
It takes a writer with a background like Chanan Tigay’s—son of a noted Bible scholar, professor of nonfiction, with a distinguished career in journalism and an MFA in fiction for good measure—to...
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The Rumpus Interview with Micah Perks
Micah Perks’s radiant new book, What Becomes Us, tells the wild and deeply moving story of the nine months leading up to the birth of twins—who narrate the story in utero—as their mother, Evie, flees...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 10/3–10/9
Wednesday 10/3: What was it like growing up in the shadow of Steve Jobs? Join Lisa Brennan-Jobs as she reads from Small Fry. This event is co-sponsored by Books Inc. and Palo Alto High School. Palo...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 4/3–4/9
Wednesday 4/3: Have lunch with last week’s Local Book Pick author! Meredith May will be reading from The Honey Bus at this literary luncheon. Orinda Books in Orinda at 11:30 a.m. ($20, tickets...
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Notable Online: 7/12–7/18
Sunday 7/12: Cornel West, Elizabeth Hinton, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor have a panel discussion and fundraiser for Black Lives. Harvard Book Store via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EDT, $3....
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