The Political is the Personal
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new memoir about life in the Socialist Workers Party shows the effects of political idealism on a child’s upbringingPolitics are kind of like life. In fact, it’s really easy to...
View ArticleNotable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Greenman at a “Word for Word”...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
At the New York launch party for his new book, Brief Encounters with the Enemy, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh was asked about other war stories he found useful when he set out to write war fiction of his own. He...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 7/8–7/14
Sunday 7/9: Rachel Lyon, Gordon Harber, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, and host Madeline Stevens join Sundays at Erv’s. Erv’s, 6 p.m., free. Monday 7/10: Jami Attenberg, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Courtney Maum,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 8/19–8/25
Tuesday 8/22: Eliza Factor and Amy Shearn discussed Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son. Greenlight Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free. Garnette Cadogan, David Burr Gerrard, Jeremy Gordon, Michelle Lyn...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 1/27–2/2
Saturday 1/27: Charles Bernstein and Erica Hunt join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 1/28: Ana Simo and Sadia Abbas join the Sunday Night Fiction series. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free....
View ArticleWhat to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2021
We’re (somehow) about halfway through another long year. How are we making it through? As always, the answer is: books. So, we’ve asked Rumpus editors to share the titles forthcoming between now and...
View ArticleNotable Online: 8/8–8/14
Monday 8/9: Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Chris Stuck, and Elle Nash join host Marae Hart for the Franklin Park Reading series. Zoom, 8 p.m. EDT, free. Maggie Smith...
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