I really had planned on doing this column ahead of time last week, but Friday night found me under the kitchen sink teaching myself how to unhook a garbage disposal…
I like to do these roundups every so often as an excuse for sitting around and watching videos for the better part of an afternoon. Enjoy! Tan Le has developed…
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, gave a fairly pedestrian and tedious commencement address at Princeton earlier this year, which is no crime–commencement addresses are supposed to be pedestrian and tedious unless…
The news on Tropical Storm Bonnie is good, especially since it seems the storm will come ashore at low tide, reducing the amount of oil likely to inundate the coastal…
Miss me? Last Saturday was the birthday of my partner of nearly ten years (and occasional Rumpus contributor) Amy Letter. That’s worth a day off, right? Two days ago, I…
“What critical pieces have you read of late that enlarge the conversation about literature, about art, about us?” This weekend we’re discussing reviews thanks to Steve Almond’s fantastic essay, “Going…
The only literary event more cloying than a boring reading is a networking event without alcohol. The Faster Times, “a new type of newspaper for a new type of world,”…
Delfin Vigil’s fantastic true story Nikko: Concrete Commando, has just became available at City Lights in San Francisco. Nikko was first published here on The Rumpus, and then beautifully self-published in…