2011
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Google’s Morbid Algorithm
“Google confirmed widespread rumors last night that it will soon launch an invitation-only beta-testing program for its controversial Android phone App, Word Count. According to a press release posted on the Google Lab Team blog, the App will make use…
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Puchner
We chat with PEN/Faulkner award nominee Eric Puchner, author of the novel Model Home.
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John le Carré Declines Booker Nomination
Judges for the international Man Booker prize have announced the thirteen finalists under consideration for this year’s award recognizing fiction writing—a body of work rather than a single book. Among the nominees is spy novelist John le Carré, who has requested…
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Arachnophobes, Steer Clear of South Eastern Pakistan
Because last year’s floods drove the spiders to the trees, which now look like this:
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“‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s The Wire”
We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass. The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also…
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“Don’t get pompous with me.”
“October, 1996. Having recently been interviewed for Rolling Stone, an angry Hunter S. Thompson writes a heated letter to his good friend and long-time collaborator, illustrator Ralph Steadman, and threatens to sever their relationship. ” Steadman, in turn, doesn’t take…
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And Then Lapsed Ordinary
I found myself intrigued by all of the energy surrounding what people seem to be calling a renewed energy in Heaney’s work.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is a double dose of bad-ass underwater photography to get you through the mid-week. Crowd sourcing the FBI way! Holy fucking shit this is a picture from Mercury. Also, people like to cuss.
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“How to Be Happy”
“Wallace longed to give ‘CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow.’” The Boston Review examines “The Ethics of David Foster Wallace.” (via @MaudNewton)