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Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #2
In Sydney, everyone runs. Actually everyone. We didn’t walk a block that first day without seeing someone running.
More Twitter-Mysteries Revealed
Earlier today we noted that The Awl had an interview with the previously anonymous person behind the Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR. Well now GalleyCat has unmasked the man behind @EvilWylie and…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/13-9/19
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside! Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which…
The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR
Meet Josh Simpson, the man behind the hilarious Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR.
Auto-Tune the News #13: Driving. Stripping. Swinging.
Read “The Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers.”
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #53
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Ted Wilson Reviews the…
Close Reading
Jonah Lehrer has an article in Wired on the ways by which e-text might affect our reading processes. Lehrer begins by briefly summarizing the “neural anatomy” of how we read:…
Burroughs’ Graphic Novel
In 1970 William S. Burroughs and cartoonist Malcolm McNeill created a “Word/Image novel,” but were never able to find a publisher for their work. Now, thanks to Fantagraphics Books, Burroughs’…
Jazzy Danziger: The Last Poem I Loved, “Epithalament” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Contrary to popular belief, language is not flat, passionless, clichéd and dying, and if you disagree, it’s imperative that you read Brenda Shaughnessy’s poem “Epithalament” as soon as possible. Language…
Notable New York, This Week 9/13 – 9/19
This week in New York The Rumpus hosts The Summer Shake Down, Tony Blair takes us on his Journey, Tom McCarthy reads from C, James Ellroy releases The Hilliker Curse,…
Stumbling into Immensity
Ted Gilley’s short story collection, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, maps grief’s breathless journey from haunted to home safe.