One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...
This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.
Saw someone wearing this great shirt the other day.
how it feels to be asked about your research
This reminds me I need to check out my Passport for PBS and watch the Andy Samberg Know Your Roots episode.
This week two people bought the books I recommended. I am now drunk with power.
Rümeysa Öztürk wrote about ICE detention and the women who helped her survive. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
How many tote bags do I have to own before they give me a free Prius I’m sure it’s any day now.
Congratulations!!!
Landed in Chicago 45 minutes ago and the man next to me on the Blue Line just ended his phone call with “ya, I gotta get home to give Butkus a steak” which is in the top 5 percent of Chicago sentences you can hear
Wasn’t ready for it
Im getting my encouragement from cough drop wrappers now.
Before Mantel died, I wrote to her publicist to see if I could connect with her while I was working on my own historical novel (acting delulu I know). They said no because she was working on several projects at the time. I’m glad I took a chance.
We are a little over a third of the way through the summer and I have heard Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” disturbingly too many times.
Lisbon has decent copy.
My instructor Adam Levin talking about sinkholes in Chicago.
hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house.
It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.
Second week of work at Disquiet. Which is mostly me driving a trolley.
We may have the same last name but we are not related and I agree.
I was walking into the theatre early and so was Billy Connolly. While I was able to open the door, he tried to open his and it was locked. He then yelled “Don’t you know who I am?!”
His name was on the marquis.
Randomly picked this up and it’s all these authors my writing friends keep recommending I check out.
When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.
Me after one dance class: Everything hurts and I’m not a surprise talent in this like I had thought.
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3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.
It’s the first day of spring so Chicago does what it does best and we have snow.
I’m case you’re like me and not headed to AWP this year.