June 2010
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Jose Saramago
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, author of Blindness and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87. (via @thebookslut)
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #1: Martha Burzynski
We sent a note to members of The Rumpus Book Club asking for a paragraph or two about where they live. ** I live in Brooklyn, about two blocks from the Promenade (which would be called an esplanade in Manhattan,…
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Morning Coffee
On the evolution of the World Cup ball. Did you know that Moscow’s metro map has been redesigned? Important stuff. Here’s your minimalist Japanese architecture for the day. Self replicating digital life.
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The Rumpus Review of Micmacs
A slapstick farce about one man’s revenge on a pair of rival arms dealers, Micmacs succeeds as comedy but attempts to ignore its own political content.
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #3
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Welcome to the continuing Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads the book of the month and regularly blogs about his…
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A Dog Is Barking Everywhere
Foghorns show up in much of my writing, but that’s because I cultivate a disingenuously melancholy disposition that my actual life, full of hilarity and good-natured insults, completely belies. But today I discovered that “a distant barking dog” appears in…
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Utopia, What Are You Good For?
“But the question lingers: Apart from its questionable value as a marketing strategy, what is utopia good for?” Paul La Farge at Bookforum on the concept and uses of utopia, with special mention of San Francisco and Burning Man.
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I Have Written The Most Important Fictional Novel On Earth
I feel bad for most writers who want to get published or make money from their writing, including myself. But I never feel that bad — after all, writing is a privilege that not everybody can do, or even should…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #41: Like an Iron Bell
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. And, Johnny, on this front, I think you have some work to do.
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The Big Jewcy
Our pal Jason Diamond has been busy compiling The Big Jewcy, a list of 100 people that the good folks at Jewcy feel deserve to be recognized. The list includes folks like Larry Smith, Rivka Galchen, and our own Stephen…