Tonight’s the night, Brooklynites! Join friends of The Rumpus for an evening of comedy, readings, and (of course) dancing. Festivities begin at 8pm.
Dancing with The Rumpus
So many wobbly assumptions
Laura Miller pokes some holes in that Dartmouth study about how little classic literature appears to be influencing contemporary writers.
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Feminist Bookstores Resisting Trump and Getting Stronger Sales
"The feminist bookstores in the nation’s largest cities are experiencing the most significant upticks in sales, as well as in foot traffic." We love bookstores here at the Millions, especially feminist ones. So we were ecstatic to see this piece in Publisher's Weekly about the bonanza of feminist bookstores seeing an increase in sales and attention. While there are not many of these bookstores left, the ones that are still alive attribute their increased popularity to the 'Trump bump.' Read the story here and be sure to visit all the bookstores mentioned the next time you're in town.
Remnick Interviewed
Robert Birnbaum has a terrific, funny, wide-ranging interview with David Remnick, a must read for all the New Yorker obsessives out there. (via Kottke)
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“If I wasn’t such a deadbeat, I’d learn Greek.”
Recommended Reading: “Ode to Country Music” by Sandra Simonds.
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Just a Game
Recommended Reading: On playing games and the cult of productivity.
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This Land Press
This Land Press, which launched in 2010 as a project to “bring literary journalism to Middle America,” will suspend publication of its magazine this spring, and there are no immediate plans for future publication.
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