Skylight Books, and the Steve Allen Theater Present
THE RUMPUS LOS ANGELES LAUNCH PARTY
Saturday, April 18, 8pm
Tickets $10

Featuring:
Music by Terra Naomi

Aimee Bender (The Girl In The Flammable Skirt)
Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight and Painkillers)
Janet Fitch (White Oleander and Paint it Black)
Zak Smith (Pictures showing what happens on each page of
ThomasPynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow)

with performances by
comedians Ian Harvey and Kyle Kinane
This American Life's Josh Bearman
and air guitar champion Dan Crane

Hosted by author and editor of The Rumpus
Stephen Elliott

The Rumpus (www.therumpus.net) is a new online magazine, focusing on culture, rather than "pop culture." Updated ten to fifteen times a day, TheRumpus.net provides original reviews of books, music, and film, interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, The Twisted Monk, Bill Ayers, Bucky Sinister, Al Franken, T Cooper, Tristan Taormino and others, as well as original essays by Steve Almond, Robin Romm, Michelle Tea, and others, and blogs by Rick Moody, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Bitchy Jones, Ryan Boudinot, and Jerry Stahl.