DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside
But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Microsoft is gearing up to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission. Google’s monopolistic search practices, they’re claiming, prevented the growth of their Bing search engine. Speaking…
Posthumous DFW
“He left us this book—the people closest to him agree that he wanted us to see it. This is not, in other words, a classic case of Posthumous Great Novel,…
The Meditative, the Mournful, and the Missing
Dean Rader has written an excellent review of poet Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, Human Chain.
Edit Tweets
Here is a collection of some book editors that are worth following on Twitter. Update: One glaring omission is that Ethan Nosowsky (@Nosowsky), Editor-at-Large for Graywolf Press (@GraywolfPress), is not…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The sun has been shining like nobody’s business, which means it is a good day to talk about: Old virus models! The history of the lobotomy! Cocaine Magazine (and other…
The Rumpus Interview with BEBE ZEVA’s Megan Boyle
17-year-old Bebe Zeva is the subject of the second documentary from MDMAfilms. You can see clips here. MDMAfilms is the project of newly-married writers Tao Lin and Megan Boyle. They film their…
Online Politics
“So what happens here is that we have a normative understanding that we should treat [the web] like public space—that you should have rights to speak, that no one should…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The +1 button: Google’s answer to the facebook like button, ‘cept it’ll actually influence your search results. Drama: Paul Allen talks about the early days of Microsoft in his new…
“The Pale King Cometh”
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King is already available online and at some bookstores despite an April 15th release date. Over at The Faster Times Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel let’s…