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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #10
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just…
Morning Coffee
Kodak’s first digital camera. (via @caitlinroeper) Rockaway to Rockaway: This dude Matt just finished walking across the country. “How great would you feel if a real person called you every…
The Rumpus Interview with Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of four short story collections, as well as The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and the novel The End of the Story. A MacArthur Fellow,…
Greenwald on Lethem
Today we ran Richard Greenwald’s fantastic essay about gentrification, authenticity, and Lethem as a New York writer. Don’t miss “Find Myself a City to Live In: Jonathan Lethem’s Imagined Metropolis.”
Rumpus Exclusive: New Cover Art From McSweeney’s
The Rumpus Book Club’s October pick, The Instructions, by Adam Levin, is not only going to be an amazing read (we’ve heard really good things), but it’s beautiful too. (It’s…
Coffee with the Candidates: Chris Young
The greatest goddamn thing I’ve seen in a while. What makes it so great is that this guy doesn’t appear to be joking. If he is, he’s got me totally…
Enjoys Long Walks on the Beach and The Idiot
“My ideal man doesn’t exist. This, at least, is what I had to conclude after visiting alikewise.com, the much-ballyhooed new site for ‘dating by the book,’ which purports to match…
The Range of Your Amazing Nothing
Lina ramona Vitkauskas asks, and her collection stands as an intrepid answer, the question as to why haute couture, avant-garde and post avant-garde cinema, Derrida, and marine life should be…
Love in the Time of Terror Babies
“My parents, with admirable foresight, had their first child while they were on fellowships in the United States. My mother was in public health, and my father in a library-science…
Chats With Random Men #3: Abraham
This week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…