2009
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The December Monthly Rumpus
December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm Get Advance Tickets! Click here! Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring: Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine James Nestor, author of Get High Now…
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Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to this epic document of classic scams. A family portrait of…
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Merry Christmas
It didn’t surprise me to learn that Americans send out a billion and a half Christmas cards every year. That would have been my guess, give or take a quarter of a billion. Missing by 250 million is coming close…
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“Friends” vs. Friends, Twitter vs. The Long Missive
William Deresiewicz just published a long essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that’s worth spending some time with: “Faux Friendship,” in which he traces how the concept of friendship has changed since classical times — it used to be…
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What Did You Read in 2009?
Want to know what book Jonathan Lethem really enjoyed this year? How about three books that Nick Flynn liked? Dana Goodyear? Jesse Ball? Well you’re in luck, The Millions has begun its “A Year in Reading” series as 2009 comes…
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Social Rumpus
Are you a fan of The Rumpus on Facebook yet? Click here and join us, you will have no regrets. Or at least not many. Twitter more your thing? Click here. You can also get monologues from Rumpus editor Stephen…
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“Does integrity lie in failure?”
“All of Powell’s work is moved along by language: No one else talks to you this way. No one else asks you questions like this. But more brilliant than the sentences are the novel’s variations in rhythm. The questions accelerate…
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Random Media Notes
Google, Washington Post and NY Times team up to create new news tool. “Media Companies See Slower Ad Declines.” Random House restructures the Crown Publishing Group. Dan Abrams, founder of Mediaite, plans to launch three new websites. Google’s eBook expert,…
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Rick Moody (and Others) Talk Online Publishing
“Online publication, to me, is of interest because it’s cheaper and easier to produce, thus emboldening people who want to bring their vision out into the marketplace of ideas. But that doesn’t mean it’s better.” Rumpus columnist Rick Moody answers…
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The Raven
Lorenzo Mattotti, from The Raven by Mattotti (illus) and Lou Reed (text), 2009 (c) Mattotti, courtesy of Galerie Martel