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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New developments on the science of heartbreak. (via @rosieate.) Movie trailers as stand-alone pieces of art. Keeping this theme going all week long: designer animal houses. Today’s relevant wikipedia entry…
The Rumpus Interview With Rob Roberge
Two years ago, Rob Roberge and I lost our publishers when the presses set to release our forthcoming books simultaneously collapsed within a couple of months of each other
Hornby’s Lonely Avenue
“The author Nick Hornby often writes about music. One of his most famous novels, High Fidelity, is about a guy who works in a record store. But Hornby never actually…
Jovanovic and Ames Get Steamy
Our own Rozalia Jovanovic recently hung out with Rumpus friend Jonathan Ames at the Russian baths on 10th street in New York’s East Village. The article she has written about…
FUNNY WOMEN #33: What She Really Thinks About Sex
After more than two years of deliberation, the suggestions from thirteen expert groups that have been working on the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders…
Dirty Silverstein
Well would you look at that, yet another reason to love Shel: “Shel Silverstein’s Secret, Raunchy Recording Sessions” (a link worth clicking if only to hear his song “Fuck ‘Em”).
David Breithaupt: The Last Book I Loved, West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief
I generally shy away from books with Jesus in the title. Everyone deserves their own trip, as they used to say in the sixties, and Jesus was never really mine. Not…
Paper-thin People
The winner of this year’s Drue Heinz prize writes flash fiction that bursts with poetic imagery and focuses on lust and the death of beauty.
Notable New York, This Week 9/28 – 10/3
This week in New York Mayhem launches, Darin Strauss lives Half a Life, Nick Flynn knows The Art of Losing, RISK! is dreamy, The New Yorker Festival screens our MOVIE…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in unfortunate appropriateness: stink bugs over run DC and the owner of the Segway crashes off a cliff. A theme? Chickens want to be stylish as well. Fungi…