Sex as Art: Sadie Lune Queers Our Conceptions of Conception
The Bay Area is no stranger to the provocative. Nary a rally, street fair or Sunday stroll exists without the backdrop of a few naked men in cock rings and…
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2011
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The Rumpus Interview with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (aka Aly Spaltro) has been quietly minding her apiary in past years, recording LPs on her eight-track in New England apartments. After a stint at SXSW…
The Dance Goes On
Judge Denny Chin has given “Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) until July 19 to hammer out a deal to settle a 2005 class…
Jill Abramson
“Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter who rose to prominence as a Washington correspondent and editor, will become the next executive editor of The New York Times, succeeding Bill Keller,…
YouTube, Books, and Awards
The 2011 Moby Awards, which celebrate the “best and worst book trailers,” have been announced.
Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Silver Sparrow Kevin Thomas reviews the May Rumpus Book Club selection, Silver Sparrow, Rumpus-Comics style.
A Gun By Any Other Name…
Letters of Note has posted an exchange between Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and a Geoffrey Boothroyd, a gun expert. Boothroyd had taken offense in Bond’s “rather deplorable…
Jewcy Lorin Stein
In a recent interview Lorin Stein discusses the Jewish realm of literature, from Leonard Michaels and Saul Bellow to the contemporary writers Sam Lipsyte, David Bezmozgis and Joshua Cohen, what…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe you’ve already seen this, but dang if this amphibious ice cream truck isn’t the best thing of the week. Also, in England, the benches sound like Alan de Botton.…
