“Baseball” with Jack
Newsday writer Stan Isaacs’ 1961 article, “Playing ‘Baseball’ with Jack Kerouac.” (via TheMillions)
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Manuscripts and Letters
in the Digital Age
Texts, emails, facebook accounts… how will archivists deal with authors’ digital documents? (via TheBookBench)
A Dialogue at the Core of Her Being
Ai successfully blends personal autobiographical poems with her trademark dramatic monologues, making for a truly original text—a kind of personified hybridity—that is both haunting and humorous.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So then those things happened. Fare thee well, Shoot the Freak. Fishing for Compliments. Here is your day’s worth of vintage fairy tale illustration. Plants and fungi used to be…
Keep the Kevlar Handy: The Rumpus Interview with Mark Slouka
“In America, we tend to think belief trumps knowledge. To tease out the truth from the fabric of lies that surrounds us requires a certain degree of intelligence. Which is bad news for us, alas.
Three Rumpus Dudes
Comics editor Paul Madonna, Managing Editor Isaac Fitzgerald, and Editor Stephen Elliott sketching out possible design improvements for The Rumpus.
Adopt an Endangered Word
Save the Words is a new web-based campaign to save endangered words. According to their website, hundreds of long out-of-use words are deleted from the dictionary every year leaving us…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The revolution may or may not be tweeted, but the election sure is. Tablet market share forecast: Slightly Android, with a 95.5% chance that you are using an iPad. In…
“I decided to do it because I was uncomfortable not being able to be myself.”
Kye Allums, a guard on George Washington University’s women’s basketball team, is a transgender man. “Kye will be the first publicly transgender NCAA Div. 1 basketball player when he steps…
Talking About The Rumpus
There’s a great conversation going on in the comments section of Seth Fischer’s essay, “Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus.” Why not join the discussion?