The August Monthly Rumpus: Hot Nights
Click here to buy tickets! Less than one week away, on August 9th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm. Featuring authors Antonia Crane, Matthew Zapruder, Victor…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #47
PLASTIC SURGERY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing plastic surgery.
Down by the River Festival, Berlin
Techno usually reigns at Bar 25’s sprawling riverside club, but last weekend at Berlin’s second annual Down By the River Festival folk music held sway. The festival brought more than…
A Handful of Experimental Writers
In an article that appeared in the Observer yesterday, a trio of writers introduces a trio of experimental authors. Skip past most of the article — it’s a bit of…
Peep Some Writers’ Houses
Ever want to see where some of your favorite authors lived and wrote? Check out this new website Writers’ Houses, a blog showcasing the headquarters of literary luminaries like Faulkner, Twain,…
The Surf Guru Reviewed in the NYT Book Review
Yesterday I opened my Sunday Times Book Review to find that the Rumpus Book Club pick has once more been reviewed by the New York Times. Obviously the folks at…
Notable New York, This Week 8/2 – 8/8
This week in New York Jennifer Vanderbes Feasts, David Carter for Gay Rights, Peter Hedges and Jonathan Tropper shows us how to bring black and white to color, Geoffrey O’Brien…
Morning Coffee
Canada has some new sea creatures too. The Horseshoe Shrimp on the other hand is very very old. You can now read Howard Zinn’s FBI file, which is sort of…
The Rumpus Interview with Mary Roach
Mary Roach discusses Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, the rigors of interviewing aerospace administrators, and why that process nearly caused her to abandon the book entirely.
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach matches her curiosity and humor against government secrecy, drunken Russian cosmonauts, and free-floating turds.
Weigh in on the Long Haul
Stacey Derasmo’s wonderful piece for the Blurb column, “The Long Haul,” is about the reasons writers keep writing — the reasons any artist keeps doing their work, really, whatever that…
And Here You Thought Those Paris Review Poets Had It Bad
“In the past three years, for instance, two friends and I (wonderful writers Gina Frangello and James Brown) had books canceled due to the publisher going bankrupt just months (and in a…