2011
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Does fiction tell the true story of childbirth? Online reading plagued by “Bye-bye belly fat” ads. Take a tour through the writing sheds of famous authors. (via) Fahrenheit 451 updated for 2011. (via)
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday. Sometimes you have to pull yourself away from the news. See what Rumpus Books has been up to this past week.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
As I mentioned at the end of the Poetry Book Club chat with Noelle Kocot (the edited version will run Tuesday, I believe), I have started a Rumpus Poetry Facebook page. So there’s yet another way for everyone to keep…
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Kickstart This
Tony Comstock, an award-winning filmmaker, has a new project. I’ll let him tell you what it’s all about. “The Boi Meets Girl Meets the MPAA project will submit BRETT AND MELANIE to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.org) and…
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Science Saturday
Most of the links this week will deal with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The biggest issue I have personally with nuclear power is that while things don’t often go wrong, when they do they have the ability to…
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Dear New York Times: Knock it off
Sorry if I seem a little obsessive about James O’Keefe, but this kind of crap really bothers me. The NY Times published a piece yesterday titled “Partisans Adopt Deceit as a Tactic for Reports” which included a nice big photo…
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Saturday Morning Links
Remember that uncontroversial controversy over NPR that resulted in a couple of resignations? Turns out–and this should be absolutely no surprise–that James O’Keefe selectively edited the video to make Schiller’s comments seem more inflammatory than they really were. We’re at…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #6
The final dispatch from Benjamin Morris, who covered New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011 for The Rumpus: The problem of Mardi Gras—of the day itself, Fat Tuesday—is that you only have one body. Consider the map of the day. Uptown, you…
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A Better Response
The New York Times public editor critiques the paper’s coverage of the gang rape story. Click here to read more on the Times‘ “response” to the justified public outrage around this story. Update: Latoya Peterson of Poynter goes even deeper…