A History Of Emoticons
“In 1887, Ambrose Bierce wrote an essay, ‘For Brevity and Clarity,’ suggesting ways to alter punctuation to better represent tone. He proposed a single bracket flipped horizontally for wry smiles,…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #42: No is Golden
But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn’t mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.
Poet Number 17
82-year-old William S. Merwin has been named the 17th U.S. Poet Laurette. You can find a whole bunch of poems by Merwin here. (Also, guess what? We now have Rumpus…
“You need something.
“I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.” Reporter extraordinaire Gene Weingarten talks with Mother Jones about his latest collection, writing, and…
The Private Lives of Trees
The second novella by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, one of the “Bogotá 39” influential Latin American writers, uses metafiction to tell a delicate, emotionally complex story.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #18: Paula Whyman in Conversation with Tim Guthrie
Paula: Tim Guthrie is an internationally exhibited and award-winning multimedia artist. He is also the best movie-dialogue-reciter I have ever met, which endeared him to me immediately. We met at…
TV, Briefly: Peep Show
Rarely do I laugh at people peeing themselves, which is why I’m confident that Peep Show is one of the best TV programs currently on the air. (Should I be…
Morning Coffee
The BBC takes you under the arctic ice. Modernist LA architecture. For those who see air (hella German art bro). Yesterday was a really slow internet day, luckily here is…
The Rumpus Review of Make Way for Tomorrow
A Depression-era drama about bankruptcy and aging and the quiet moral failures of the petit bourgeois, Make Way for Tomorrow is the anti-Avatar.