From Early Groening to Gary Panter
“In the early 1980s, comics were as much a part of Los Angeles alternative culture scene as independent film and punk rock.” Comics historian Ben Schwartz takes us back to…
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Daniel Schorr
Journalism legend Daniel Schorr passed away this morning at the age of 93. NPR remembers the man and his accomplishments with words and photos.
Prose and Convicts: Literature as Rehabilitation
Peep this article about a program exploring the development of reading groups as an alternative to incarceration in The Guardian. The Guardian details a pilot program in Exeter in which…
Citrus County Hits New York, Texas is All About Doug Dorst, and Tao Lin Challenges his Readers to a Dual…er, Contest: The One Rumpus, One Book Round-Up
New this week, The Rumpus presents a smattering of Book Club related news, including highlights of past, present, and future books in our queue. -You may have already caught Daniel…
Better She Had Slapped Me
Tongue contains none of the typical tricks, irony, or obsessive self-absorption of many recent books. Each poem is self-contained, yet are all of a piece.
Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #2: Samamidon
I’m in the Central Valley right now (this is up for debate, but I use the phrase like Joan Didion would to refer to the area surrounding Sacramento).
Morning Coffee
We are going to the State Fair tomorrow. We’ll be sure to let you know how it is. Here are some pictures of baby Caecilians. This is the world’s strongest…
Return of the Woodster: The Rumpus Interview With Gary Shteyngart
When he’s not documenting his irreversible addiction to food porn or commiserating with the literary illuminati, Gary Shteyngart writes books. OK, he writes some of the funniest books I have…
Libraries Are Going to Get (Even More) Popular
Now, I spent a relatively sizable portion of my youth wandering the dust-infected and narrow corridors of the public library. Other people called it bookish, I called it discovery. Therefore,…
Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day Inferred From Twitter
More about this project here.
Some Books Are Good, Some Books Are Bad…
But recommending a good book depends on who you are and who the recommendation is meant for. We all know Amazon’s machinated recommendations and the like are bogus. Only people…
AIDS Hits Home
“In November, 1990, LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man, David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded…