A Brief History of Authors and Time (the magazine not a non-spatial continuum)
Time recently caused a lot of news in the blogosphere for slapping Jonathan Franzen on their cover (the first author to do so in a decade) and declaring him the…
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Yoga dudes Neal Pollack (today’s Rumpus interviewee) and Mark Morford will be in conversation at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco this Thursday. Litquake, who is hosting the event,…
A Week Without Technology
Five neuroscientists from Washington University in St. Louis spent a week in late May rafting, camping, and hiking in a remote area of southern Europe. Their goal was to understand…
Advice From Bolaño
“With every day that passes, I am more convinced that the act of writing is a conscious act of humility.” Diego Trelles Paz shares a “brief epistolary electronic exchange” he…
Trying to Quiet Revolutionary Voices
Well this isn’t good: two libraries in New Jersey (both under the same county director) have pulled a gay themed short story collection written by queer youth, Revolutionary Voices, from…
Notable New York, This Week 8/16 – 8/22
This week in New York Summer is Short, John Brandon makes a Citrus pit stop, Gary Shteyngart is Super Sad, MGMT is inspired by sex balls, Scott Pilgrim takes over…
Morning Coffee
Occupational alphabet, circa 1844 (rad). Trash-sucking tubes (exciting). (via Flavorwire.) Runaway subway (terrifying). Demolition is beginning in Coney Island (sad). (via Movie City News.) Vintage calculators (simplicity).
The Rumpus Interview With Neal Pollack
A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept…
Prop 8 Update
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals continued Judge Vaughn Walker’s stay pending appeal. On the plus side (and I’m grasping here), the appeal was expedited, which means the process will…
“To Have a Second Lanuage is to Have a Second Soul”
How much does language shape our thinking capabilities? Does it exist only as a tool to reproduce/translate thought or does it take an active role the production of thought? Lera…