“The Sum of All Books Present in the Shared Human Consciousness”
Check out The New York Journal of Books where Joseph Mackin delivers a treatise on the book review. What is the purpose of the book review anyway? Do they serve…
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Salman Rushdie’s Big Think
“If Saul Bellow wants to write a novel set in Africa he feels free to do so, whereas sometimes if the reverse happens, if a third-world writer wishes to set…
FUNNY WOMEN #39: Revenge Is Best Served Warmly
I often think about the five people I’d invite to a fantasy dinner party. They are: Jesus Christ, Rick Springfield, my late grandmother, my ex-boyfriend Steve, and a celebrity chef.
Steaming Mug
So a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that. Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever.…
Joe Owens: The Last Book I Loved, The Wilding
Benjamin Percy can probably kick my ass. At least his prose gives me no reason to believe otherwise. Equal parts grit, subtlety and a silver-tongued bravura, Percy’s style makes me…
Chats With Random Men #11: Amit
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The US government doesn’t like it when we steal things on the Internet, so it petulantly revoked a handful of domains. Comcast levies bandwidth fees on a company that delivers streaming…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists have figured out how to make your DNA un-age itself (maybe). 1800s coffee packaging. Let’s talk about crazy-ass Brazilian sculptures and the bugs that inspire them. Children drawing the…
The Rumpus Interview with Michael Klein
Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author whose poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City…