You Need More Sleep
“Now, new research is showing that sleep also seems to reorganize memories, picking out the emotional details and reconfiguring the memories to help you produce new and creative ideas, according…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“A reader might feel, at first, “Ah, I see, this story is making a social commentary—that’s why it exists,” and then, while she’s distracted, the story does … something else.…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Holiday time is a pretty good time to hole up in the den and catch up on Rumpus Books, especially if you have a den.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Save the date, Poetry Book Club Members–Monday January 3, 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST–for the chat with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her book Lucky Fish. You’ll get the link and…
Artists Respond to Smithsonian Censorship
This is what happens when an art museum caves in to political pressure–artists and foundations decide to walk away from you. The Smithsonian Institution pulled a an AIDS-themed video from…
Announcing the January Pick for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
January’s pick for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club is A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock. It’s from Ahsahta Press, and it’s Kaschock’s second collection of poems. For…
Science Saturday
Watching high speed laser welding with an x-ray camera–what part of that description isn’t awesome? Solving the Pioneer anomaly. Voyager is approaching the boundaries of the solar system. Lunar eclipse!…
Saturday Morning Links
I’ve been flirting with one for days, ever since the end of the semester, but I think today I actually have a full-blown hangover. Take it easy on me, would…
Field Notes: Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone / Thank You All Very Much
I’ve had the book for about a year. Margaret Drabble’s Thank You All Very Much, originally published in 1965 as The Millstone. My copy, a Signet edition from 1969, was…
Ted Wilson’s Holiday Gift
“Too many Rudolphs Glowing noses terrify Wake up in a sweat” Our very own Ted Wilson is offering free holiday haikus to anyone who emails him at iamtedwilson AT gmail.com.…
Book Club Round-Up
“San Francisco is the best place in the country to be a writer,” says author Andrew Altschul in a profile by Publisher’s Weekly about his new book Deux Ex Machina.…