We Don’t Do Food
We don’t write much about food here at The Rumpus, but we can now say McSweeney’s does. Meet Lucky Peach.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has an Ancient Heart
Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far, guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.
Killer Stats
Famous baseball statistician Bill James, who “played a prominent role in the Michael Lewis best-seller Moneyball,” is now aiming his science at serial killers.
Chris Adrian in SF
It’s a Chris Adrian double feature! Today, in Book Review, Christopher Feliciano Arnold reviews Adrian’s latest novel, The Great Night. Then tonight at 7:30 Adrian will be reading at Booksmith in the Haight.
Books Behind Bars
“The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked a judge to block a South Carolina jail’s rules over what items inmates may receive while the group challenges a policy barring…
Mary Mann: The Last Book I Loved, History on a Personal Note: Stories
Two years ago, I ended a five-year relationship with a man who loved me. Very simply, it wasn’t enough anymore. Responses ranged from distraught to disappointment to disgust. My aunt…
The Great Night
A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chris Adrian’s new novel The Great Night explores love and death at an evening feast in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Something’s in the air, feelin’ pretty sciencey. But first here are some pictures of clouds. This totally explains how my identity got stolen by a koala. Maybe we all came…
Aggregation Killed the Journalism Star
In 2003 I was fresh out of college and interning at Ms. Magazine. I first saw Arianna Huffington at the magazine’s editorial offices, where she was holding a press conference…