Dickens in the Third World
”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.” George Packer…
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The Cloud Corporation
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s September pick, Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, has been reviewed by The New Yorker. We’re not saying it’s solely because the collection was a Rumpus…
Tao Lin and Emily Gould: The Sam and Diane of the Youtube Generation?
Today over at The Awl, Emily Gould interviews Tao Lin for her awesome Cooking the Books series. The salad they make looks pretty tasty, but the real reason to watch…
2011: The Revenge of Print?
“We are challenging everyone who’s ever made/self-published a zine, a comic or mini-comic before to dust off the ol’ photocopier and make at least one more new issue in 2011.”…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash…
The Rumpus Interview With The Bots
The Bots are a band of two brothers, Mikaiah Lei, 17, and Anaiah Lei, 13, hailing from Glendale, California. Mikaiah sings and plays guitar while his younger brother Anaiah holds…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/11-10/17
This week in San Francisco, Twitter IRL, SOMArts asks How Do You Value Art?, more art at Hotel Biron, and even more art (and readings!) at Sub-Mission’s Skate This Art.…
LitCrawl 2010
The SF Weekly has posted a slideshow from this year’s wonderful LitCrawl in San Francisco.
“If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything…”
Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #56
FLEET WEEK! ★★★★★★ (6 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Fleet Week!