“Barbara Comyns Is Not Anyone on Acid”
Be sure to check out Emily Gould’s essay about British author Barbara Comyns for The Awl’s “best women writers that you’ve maybe never read” section. Also, in case you missed…
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Atheism By Numbers
“So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say ‘Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…’ If they say ‘Just God. I…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #66
BROOKSTONE ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brookstone.
“It began with a list…”
“We wanted to make an edgy, honest, and literary book including the kind of writing that women contribute to TheRumpus.net week after week.” Our own Elissa Bassist tells the story…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s a day for (hopefully productive) outrage. The FCC is meeting today to discuss net neutrality regulations. If you use the Internet, you should probably be paying attention. Speaking of…
Largehearted Book
“Mixing humor, pathos, and violence with ease, Levin creates characters that are fully realized, even the minor ones, and his young messianic protagonist is simply one of the year’s most…
Minnie, the Little Fish Who Lived in a Shoe
Illustrations by Nell Witters for Minnie, the Little Fish Who Lived in a Shoe by Ethel Clere Chamberlin (1931):
You Know Nothing of My Work!
Douglas Coupland’s new biography of Marshall McLuhan bends the rules of the medium—but what, exactly, is the message?
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some things I am interested in today. Dinosaur diets. Hungarian zoo redesign. Brains and musical improvisation. The Parisian Metro. Vocoders.
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #33: Collapse of the Metrodome
I should have known, when the New York Knicks began winning in November, that some sort of rift was opening up in the firewall that keeps our dreams separate from…
Help Jon Adams Save Santa
Rumpus artist Jon Adams wants you to help save Santa by solving the maze that is St. Nick’s internal organs. (For those readers who are wondering: Yes, yes Jon is…