Monkey Bars
The result of Lippman’s perpetual contentiousness is a collection that is confrontational in the best sense of the word, interrogating the reader, himself, and America pretty much as a whole…
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THE LONELY VOICE #8: In Praise of Inaction, Bellow’s “The Old System”
I’ve been hearing the short story is dead again. The real money is in novels. Screenplays! A short story? Why don’t you go and write a haiku while you’re at…
“Reality, Really”
Publishers Weekly profiles Rumpus Books section editor Andrew Foster Altschul, who is also the author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club pick, Deus Ex Machina.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Microsoft to throw their hat, I mean, tablet into the ring. Aggregations of daily minutiae like status updates into larger trends = weirdly irresistible. A facebook intern has posted a striking image that…
The Last Book(store) I Loved: BookCourt
If you’re like me, you work a remedial day job and you spend a lot of time at said day job cruising around the Internet and reading about books. You…
Notable New York, This Week 12/14 – 12/19
This week in New York Rumpus Women take over!, New Yorker writer’s 20 Under 40 share their stories, Jonathan Ames and Justin Taylor are among writers who read from A…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy
When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Take a look inside the Madagascar stone forest. Or not, it’s entirely up to you. Here are some more very old botanical drawings for you. Very important: sleepy bees are…