2011
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday again, always the best day to catch up with Rumpus Books.
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West Memphis Three Roundup
The West Memphis Three is shorthand for Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, three men who were convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. They were released yesterday after new evidence questioning their…
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Science Saturday
Physicists have figured out a way to stop coffee rings from forming, which is a bigger deal than you might expect. Stealing cars via text message. I expect this will appear on Leverage before too long. I linked to photos…
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Saturday Morning Links
Happy Saturday everyone! The splint is off, the coffee is hot, the English Premier League is streaming on my second screen, and I’m starting a new job on Monday. Look at these photos from inside the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It’s…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Ross
Traces of Adam Ross’s life appear in the pages of his latest book of stories, Ladies and Gentlemen. There’s the teenage boy attending Trinity School in Manhattan, a journalist traveling to interview a famous actress, and an English professor who…
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Dispatch #2 from the Great Mistakes Tour
Our managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, has published his second dispatch documenting LA-based comic and Rumpus contributor Kyle Kinane‘s Great Mistakes Tour. Update: You can find Isaac’s first dispatch here.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #46: Dane Golden in Conversation with Alan Paul
Beijing was changing under his feet, and expatriate Alan Paul was changing, too. A transplanted suburban dad, he was a “trailing spouse” who followed his wife on her promotion and relocation from New Jersey to Beijing. A writer used to…
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Robert Stubblefield: The Last Book I Loved, Cash
You can never know too much about Johnny Cash, one of the few icons who stands up to repeated listenings, readings, late-night and early morning considerations. You come home from a bad night out, a great night out, sort through…
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Meanwhile, Musicians (Thao & Mirah on tour)
Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the life of touring musicians. …more
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The Dead Man’s Back Arches
The collection works as poetic biography and Whitmanesque dialogue, and this approach and its repetitions become irresistibly hypnotic.