The Instructions Video
Check it out, the Rumpus Book Club‘s October pick, The Instructions by Adam Levin, now has a cool (and educational) video.
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This’ll Make Your Friday
A number of love letters written by Oscar Wilde have been made public for the first time.
“Become This Year’s Grinch”
It’s way too early for Christmas, but here’s “The Meanest Christmas Gift You Can Give Your Writer Friends.” It’s cool though, you can redeem yourself by giving them this essay…
Who’s There
In Knock Knock, Hartley has accomplished a humor hat-trick, netting jokes a) in poetry, b) while evoking multiple cultures and c) in multiple languages. Hartley’s comedy is in the absurdity…
The Weekly Book Club Round-Up
-Maybe you are tired of looking at a computer screen. Maybe you’re just not a visual person. Maybe you want a new lens into Richard Yates, by Tao Lin. Whatever…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
have a great weekend dudes. The NY Times on tiny Golden Gate Bridges and superheroes in court. Dilating French museums are pretty dang sweet. Flavorwire on the last of Britain’s…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #20: Ascension
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995… but this is the end of the line) With an introduction by Matthew Zapruder **
Elitist White People Trying To Make Themselves Feel Better
(Which includes me.) “The workshop’s most famous mantras – ‘Murder your darlings,’ ‘Omit needless words,’ ‘Show, don’t tell’ – also betray a view of writing as self-indulgence, an excess to…
Books For The Dark Night Of The Soul
In his late thirties, F. Scott Fitzgerald experienced a series of emotional and mental breakdowns, many of which he wrote about in a series of random essays and observations collected…
Hitchens On Dying
“At a luncheon earlier in the day with Hitchens and Berlinski, Taunton asked Hitchens about his health problems. ‘Well, I’m dying, since you asked,’ Hitchens replied. ‘So are you, but…