Holding Company
In Holding Company, his third collection of poems, Major Jackson achieves the difficult feat of writing a book that feels simultaneously both intensely personal and yet also archetypally American.
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2010
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am fascinated by this sort of thing: the failure of empathy. (via Gerry Canavan.) I’m not entirely sure why you’d want a garden on top of a bus. Bubble photography.…
The Rumpus Review of The Social Network: Suck It
At the end of The Social Network, a new indie flick that no one has ever heard of, I turned to my friend, and out of every intelligent comment I…
One of Five
Paul Yoon has been named one of the National Book Association’s “5 under 35.” Read “The Rumpus Original Combo With Paul Yoon,” and then click here to see who else…
Being There Matters
Here’s an interesting Nieman Report on foreign correspondence. In the report’s introduction John Maxwell Hamilton suggests that it is public lack of interest in news from abroad that has created…
Lunching with Luminaries
What do W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson have in common? Besides their Britainia, they’ve all had lunch with Steven L. Isenberg. If you missed…
Viva La Print
“There’s no emotional connection between the reader and the computer screen.” Lorin Stein promises that The Paris Review will stick to print.
Franzen’s Glasses Taken Hostage
Two men gatecrashed Jonathan Franzen’s UK launch party and snatched the author’s glasses before handing him a ransom note that read “$100,000 – Your glasses are yours again!” The men…
How to be intimate online
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and HTMLGIANT founder Blake Butler in a roundtable discussion about online intimacy at The Faster Times.
FUNNY WOMEN #34: An Evolution of Dear John Letters
My ten-year-old self: Dear John, Sorry but I can not be your girlfriend anymore because my Dad says that I am not supposed to date until I am 16.
Tell Your Story (And Help the Kids!)
Need help writing that memoir you know you have in you? Already have your manuscript good to go, but have no idea where to start when it comes to getting…