“The Lottery”
“Old Man Warner snorted. “Pack of crazy fools,” he said. “Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back…
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“The Horla”
“Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence? One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable…
“Afterward”
“It was in the air when she woke in her low-ceilinged, dusky room; it accompanied her down-stairs to the breakfast-table, flashed out at her from the fire, and re-duplicated itself…
Bwahahaha!
“When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Boo! On the role of editors at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. (via) This guy, the Biblioracle, takes the last five books you read and tells you what to read next. If…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Halloween, everybody! Below the fold, links to what Rumpus Books has been up to over the last week.
The Eyeball #37: Kenneth Anger
Are there some films you have to take drugs to enjoy? I asked this question toward the end of this week’s session of the class on experimental films I’m teaching…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So the big news for Rumpus Poetry Book Club members is that our chat with Elizabeth Alexander will take place on Friday November 5 at 8:00 p.m. EST, 5:00 p.m.…
The Needs of the Many
The Texas Supreme Court has cited Mr. Spock in a legal opinion, but it was a scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which makes it okay. If…
The More Things Change…
In 1968, the year I was born, Ronald Reagan was considered too extreme to be the Republican nominee for the presidency. Richard Nixon was the nominee and served a term…
Science Saturday
Sorry this is late–the line for early voting was longer than I expected. That’s a good thing, though, so I’m fine with this being a little late if you are.…