2009
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Keith Waldrop, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry. Here’s their interview with Waldrop. Mark Scroggins uses the Barrett Watten reading I mentioned last week as a jumping off point for an interesting discussion of, as he…
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Science Saturday
The Large Hadron Collider has started up again. The collisions aren’t supposed to begin until January, which is ahead of schedule. Perhaps that’s why there hasn’t been a big-budget disaster flick about it–still time to get something on the SyFy…
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Notable South Florida
As almost anyone who’s lived down here can testify, the music scene is, well, uneven at best, unless you enjoy seeing bands that put out iffy music twenty years ago and are still touring to pay off their original record…
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Would you like to write for The Rumpus?
Of course you would. And fortunately for you, there are a couple of ways you can do it. Check out our two series, The Last Book I Loved and The Last Poem I Loved, and if you have an idea…
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Saturday Morning Links
Let’s see what kind of ruckus we can stir up today. The Arkansas police officer who tased a ten year old girl last week received his punishment today–a seven day suspension with pay. Not for tasing the girl, mind–for not…
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The Last Book I Loved: Outer Dark
Outer Dark left me out of breath; a literary asthma attack propelled by a respiratory one.
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On Creating The Adderall Diaries
Updated, November 20 Just added, class in Missoula Montana, November 29, 4pm. Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is in the middle/end of an insane book tour promoting his new book, The Adderall Diaries (out two months but recently reviewed in…
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Jonathan Ames Wears Many Hats
Jonathan Ames wears many hats: writer, boxer, performer, raconteur, and screenwriter. The hat he wears in his video interview on bigthink.com is a jaunty chapeau; a beanie perched atop Ames’ bearded head. It’s almost jaunty enough to distract from the…
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Weekly Dose of Wonder
Riddle me this, art-cognoscenti? Why is Frederic Church not as well known as William Turner? Does the Hudson not inspire as great art as (my alma mater) Heidelberg? Is it just that Church was American? Twilight in the Wilderness:
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Colum McCann
“Every novel is a failure. You can never achieve what you truly want to achieve. That thing you dreamt on the riverbank is never the thing you achieve when you are back at the writing table.” –From “The Rumpus Interview…