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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean is best known for being portrayed by Meryl Streep in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. However it’s her obsession with other peoples’ obsessions (not her momentary stint in the limelight) that...
View Article“It’s Not A Zero Sum Game”
“I think in general writers are pretty nice to each other. And it’s not a zero sum game. I think that people understand that there’s always room for another good writer. I mean there is not a fixed...
View ArticleLess Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led reclusive lives with minimal...
View ArticleNew Kind of Art: A @horse_ebooks Roundup
For the past few years, the Twitter account @horse_ebooks has delighted hundreds of thousands of followers with algorithmically generated excerpts of found text like “Everything happens so much,”...
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LA Lit Crawl: “Show Me How”
The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry LitProudly Presents:Show Me HowLA Lit CrawlRound 2: Wednesday October 23rd7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.The Federal Bar5303 Lankershim BoulevardNorth HollywoodReadings by: Johnny...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Shohreh Aghdashloo presents and signs The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.Tuesday 10/22: A release party for Two Dollar Radio‘s Frequencies #3, featuring readings...
View ArticleThe Rumpus At The LA Lit Crawl!
Tonight! The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How!The event features Johnny Alfi, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones, Jillian Lauren, Susan Orlean, our very own managing editor Zoë Ruiz!...
View ArticleBaby Panda Bears!
We’ll just leave this here:A Smithsonian magazine piece on the National Zoo’s baby pandas.And it’s by Susan Orlean.And it includes photos.Related Posts:Word of the Day: DidapperNew Kickstarter Reward...
View ArticleNew Kickstarter Reward for Happy Baby
There’s a new Kickstarter reward for The Happy Baby Post Production fundraiser called The Small Signed Library Award.It’s collection of books signed by their authors including books from Meg Wolitzer,...
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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay
Last fall, a small press published an anthology titled Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. This fall, an imprint of Simon and Schuster published a follow-up essay collection by...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #3: Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”–Groucho MarxBetty White Reads To You(You’re welcome.)Harry the Dirty Dog MemoirShort Leash: A Memoir of Dog...
View ArticleLife Into Art: Memoirs Adapted for Television and Film
On Saturday, October 17th, join Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott, along with Susan Orlean, Jerry Stahl, and Evan Wright, for a panel discussion hosted by Derrick C. Brown about what it’s like to...
View ArticleWhen Susan Orlean Admitted How She Felt about Jerry Stahl
From After Adderall, premiering at The Rumpus LO-FI Los Angeles Film Festival, July 30:http://therumpus.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/s-j.m4vRelated Posts:LO-FI Film FestivalLife Into Art: Memoirs...
View ArticleScratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
The title appears in gold on a giant fountain pen: Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Floating around the pen on the pale green cover are a swath of handwritten names—Cheryl...
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/23–1/29
Tuesday 1/24: Brad Schreiber reads from and signs Revolution’s End. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. The Atlantic‘s James Hamblin presents his new book If Our Bodies Could Talk, joined in conversation...
View ArticleWatch 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...
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What to Read When You’re Thinking about Florida
Hurricane season has our eyes turned southward toward that strange state of Florida, where the effects of climate change are being played out as ocean temperatures soar higher and higher and each new...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Faith Adiele
About fifteen years ago, a friend said she wanted to introduce me to author, speaker, and teacher Faith Adiele. Faith, my friend explained, was Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, living right here...
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/13–11/19
Monday 11/13: WRITE CLUB L.A. chapter 69: Music In Our Heads. Featuring readings by Sarah Stanley, Tim Rutili, Lou DiMaggio, Jesse Myers, Brett Paesel, and Jamie Koogler. Hosted by Justin Welborn,...
View ArticleBaby Panda Bears!
We’ll just leave this here: A Smithsonian magazine piece on the National Zoo’s baby pandas. And it’s by Susan Orlean. And it includes photos. Related Posts: This Week in Essays This Week in Essays...
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