2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
This software can tell you how dramatically a photo has been digitally altered. The editors of fashion magazines are shaking in their boots. Apparently your printer could be hacked and set on fire. Facebook’s about to go public. The British…
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This Hypothetical Life (Penn State is the World)
The Sandusky case pulls back the curtain on all kids who, like his alleged victims, become sexually victimized and exploited because of their poverty.
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Tell Your True Tale
“The day before I killed Donald Evans I did not even know he existed. The day he died I was smoking crack cocaine and when I smoke crack, nothing else matters. Not family, not friends – not even God.” The…
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Airline Crisis Art
Is the airline safety card more a work of the imagination than an actual instructional manual? This article guides us through the history of the often ignored “art of airline crisis.” “Is it possible that in the golden age of…
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This Is Your Brain on Jokes
“Well, anytime you find yourself making an error, it’s a downer initially. The initial emotional response to any discovery of error in your understanding of the world has got to be ‘uh oh.’ But in humor, the brain doesn’t just…
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The Rumpus Review of The Clock
Moms are full of all sorts of pithy sayings that mysteriously trickle down through time. Being an impatient child—who has grown into a reasonably impatient adult—I remember my mother often advising me that “a watched pot never boils,”
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The Neighbors’ Troubles
Winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, Josh Rolnick’s debut collection, Pulp and Paper reveals the crisp details that line the crises of our daily lives.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Did someone say jetpack murder? Captain Kangaroo and the Panda (yep). Here’s some really scholarly creepiness: late medieval cadaver tombs. I know this is late, but man this color footage of the 1939 Thanksgiving Day Parade is something else. Maybe…
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Kafka Was a Legal Secretary
“It’s the stuff of dreams: proof that those evenings spent hunched over a desk, typing furiously might, just might, not be in vain; that Paul Giamatti’s character from Sideways does not represent an undiscovered middle-aged writer’s inevitable fate.” The Atlantic…
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Norman Mailer on Marilyn Monroe
“But when the portraits are all juxtaposed with Norman Mailer’s muscular descriptions of the traumas of her childhood, the whole thing is just too brutal. Mailer relates how, by Monroe’s own admission, her grandmother tried to suffocate her with a…