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I’ve gotten so used to thinking about The Rumpus as one of my go-to sites, and linking to something of theirs in damn near every web round-up I do, that I’ve nearly forgotten about the days when I used to put posts together that focused exclusively on them. Let’s do that now.
Top of the site: an interview with the painter Caris Reid; funny Woman Elissa Bassist on “How to Move to San Francisco.”
And in Books Stuff: Virginia Konchan reviews Catherine Bowman’s The Plath Cabinet; Andrew Altschul on Marisa Meltzer’s Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music; Catherine Brady on Eric Puchner’s first novel, Model Home; and that Steve Almond piece about self-publishing that I linked to yesterday.
All that and more. But hey, here’s something else important: New York folks, on March 11, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott will be lecturing on “Writing From Experience,” something he damn well knows something about, at the LGBT Center on West 13th street. $30 reserves you a space, and you can buy your ticket here, but there’s also one free ticket up for grabs, and you can win it by leaving a comment on this post. From Stephen: comments can be “about anything at all, it could be why they should get it, what their project is about, or just random thoughts about the weather.” He’ll be looking over the thread and will choose the commenter whose post somehow says “Yeah, I’m worth giving free shit to and spending two hours with.” So, yeah. Happy Friday!
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PS- Art by Ryan Lauderdale, who has a show opening at Red White Yellow gallery in Houston on March 13th.
Tags: Elisa Bassist, Ryan Lauderdale, Stephen Elliott, The Rumpus
I give money away when I can, but lately I’ve been pretty broke. (I even gave the rumpus some when I was a little more flush.) I’ve written a couple books, but I’m working on what I want to be a funny memoir and am having hard time figuring out how to include the more violent and painful parts of my past without losing the general tone of the thing. I loved the Adderall Diaries and think this lecture could really help me.
I give money away when I can, but lately I’ve been pretty broke. (I even gave the rumpus some when I was a little more flush.) I’ve written a couple books, but I’m working on what I want to be a funny memoir and am having hard time figuring out how to include the more violent and painful parts of my past without losing the general tone of the thing. I loved the Adderall Diaries and think this lecture could really help me.
So far, I’ve spent a lot of time accumulating experience, but not nearly enough time writing about it. Here’s a recent attempt. I’d love a space at the table, but I’m between soul-sucking jobs, so unless I get the free one, it’s not happening.
So far, I’ve spent a lot of time accumulating experience, but not nearly enough time writing about it. Here’s a recent attempt. I’d love a space at the table, but I’m between soul-sucking jobs, so unless I get the free one, it’s not happening.
Viewing the Skeleton Event in the Winter Olympics gives me flashbacks of sexual encounters.
Viewing the Skeleton Event in the Winter Olympics gives me flashbacks of sexual encounters.
you could pick my girlfriend. she just moved to the city and has an empty apartment. she needs to get out.
you could pick my girlfriend. she just moved to the city and has an empty apartment. she needs to get out.
I am gay. Therefore, we are related. Besides, Stephen Elliot and I used to work the same corner together. Only I was eight and he was fifteen. Actually, never mind. You should probably give it to Chet’s girlfriend. It sounds like their relationship is a bit shaky right now.
I am gay. Therefore, we are related. Besides, Stephen Elliot and I used to work the same corner together. Only I was eight and he was fifteen. Actually, never mind. You should probably give it to Chet’s girlfriend. It sounds like their relationship is a bit shaky right now.
The mindlessness of my day job has wrapped itself around me like a moldy blanket. Please free me.
The mindlessness of my day job has wrapped itself around me like a moldy blanket. Please free me.
Lorrie Moore wants 10% on that SF text.
Lorrie Moore wants 10% on that SF text.
Hey Stephen! It’s Marina, again. I’d really like to go; i’d love to meet you. I, too have a complicated relationship with Roberto Bolaño.
Hey Stephen! It’s Marina, again. I’d really like to go; i’d love to meet you. I, too have a complicated relationship with Roberto Bolaño.
Hi Judy. You’re the winner of the free ticket. For everyone else, you can get a discounted ticket by using the password Smith. That’ll get you a $24 instead of $30. Hope to see all of you. Here’s the link to get tix: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97924
Hi Judy. You’re the winner of the free ticket. For everyone else, you can get a discounted ticket by using the password Smith. That’ll get you a $24 instead of $30. Hope to see all of you. Here’s the link to get tix: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97924
oh hamburgers.
oh hamburgers.