Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another South Korean parrot looking dinosaur. Let’s talk about the worlds most expensive book, shall we? Sometimes, when it comes to large rolling mechanical planetariums, you just have…
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Composing the Wilderness: An Essay on the Nested and Dynamic Model of Nature, Humanity, and Technology
In July, 2010, I delivered a keynote address at Goddard College’s MFA Writing residency in Port Townsend, Washington, on the theme “Composing the Wilderness.” This essay is included in an…
Rock L.A. with Rumpus Women!
Hey Los Angeles! Please join us TONIGHT, December 7, at 7:30 pm, for a Rumpus Women reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Antonia Crane, Kathleen Alcott and Julie Greicius. Hosted by Stephen…
Is There a Poodle In It?
“A midnight bathroom-based experiment, for better or worse.” Those were the words in the email sent to us along with a link to this video, which advertises McSweeney’s 36.
Dan Chiasson’s Favorite
“Omnivorous, fast-forward, bull-in-a-china-shop poems…” Rumpus Poetry Book Club pick The Cloud Corporation by Timothy Donnelly is Dan Chiasson’s “favorite book of the year.”
FUNNY WOMEN #40: Music Quiz
Not only are women not funny, but also they don’t know anything about music.
“It is difficult to talk about race and stressful and awkward and exhausting.”
Roxane Gay posts “A Bit of Follow Up” to her post about the lack of diversity in the Best American Short Stories 2010, which we mentioned here.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Rumor has it the iPad 2 is coming in February. Google expands into yet another underserved sector: eBooks. And shows off a new tablet prototype. Facebook changed their profile page again.…
Wikileaks Roundup
Julian Assange was arrested today in Britain. Here’s some background on the charges* Assange has an editorial in today’s Australian. How is Wikileaks like L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry? Visa and Mastercard have…