FUNNY WOMEN #30: My Four Relationships
The way you’re looking at me tonight, I know you’re ready to take this to the next level.
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The Collins Almanac is Back!
Friend of the Rumpus and all around cool guy Paul Collins has revived the Collins Almanac on the McSweeney’s iPhone app: “After six years of slumber (I prefer to call…
David Mamet, Crypto-Conservative All Along?
Not long ago David Mamet admitted that he is a conservative, and in his latest book, Theatre, he attempts to integrate his newly articulated politics into his view of the…
Cassette Tape Revival
Here’s an article in the LA Times about the revival of the cassette tape. Seems as though cassettes are the new vinyl. Or something. Apparently, the fuss-free cheapness of the…
Interviewers, as Seen by Novelists
The B&N Review has published an amusing piece by Tom LeClair about the way interviewers of novelists are portrayed in novels by DeLillo, Roth, Coetzee and Bolano — and LeClair…
Morning Coffee.
New findings in a long term monkey annoyance study (scientists are amazing). Flavorwire has your post-apocalyptic photography for the day. The census of marine life. I’m really sorry about all…
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Doug Dorst
"My warm-up technique appears to be to waste several hours on the web, waste several more telling myself I’m a fraud."
Autosummarize, Applied to Popular Works
Graphic designer Jason Huff has taken the 100 most-downloaded copyright-free books and applied Microsoft Word’s 10-sentence autosummary to them. The Book Bench highlights some funny ones, but it’s really worthwhile…
Bill Murray Interview at GQ
A long and very interesting interview with Bill Murray is up at GQ; one of the most interesting things comes right up front, where we learn that anybody can get…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/2-8/8
This week, Quiet Lightning! First Tuesday: TechnoCraft @ YBCA, and art, art, art! In North Beach @ DoublePunch, Western Addition @ Big Umbrella, and in the Haight at the Summer…
Win Free Novellas from Melville House
Melville House is publishing three novellas translated from German this month, and they’re giving away a complete set to every tenth person who emails them. All you have to do…