Farewell To Open City
A memorial to the long-standing literary magazine, Open City. (Via: Bookforum)
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2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
AOL is planning big layoffs in the wake of their acquisition of the Huffington Post. Here’s an interesting take on Hollywood’s attachment to old-school artificial scarcity of popular movies. Bubble,…
On Law, Zines and Trans Politics
“. . .there has been widescale attacks on social movements over the last thirty or forty years in response to the very meaningful social movements in the sixties and seventies…
Perec On Asking For A Raise
Everyday life is surprisingly full of hair-raising adventures. Sometimes you don’t realize it until you’re in the thick of it. Waiting for the grocery store manager to confirm that you…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #67: The Black Arc of It
But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.
Life with Susan Sontag
In the 1970s, writer Sigrid Nunez moved in with her boyfriend and his mother. She hovered over the couple, critiqued their sex life, had an endless parade of house guests,…
Respond to the Times Article
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting…
The Latest from Wisconsin
If you scan the front pages of major news websites this morning, you might not know that anything happened in Wisconsin last night. The MSNBC website has a small piece…
The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.
Sibling Rivalry: Jim Shepard, You Think That’s Bad?
Rumpus Book Club member, Anna Newbold, shares her thoughts about last month’s Book Club selection, Jim Shepard’s You Think That’s Bad: As an only child, I feel reluctant to enter…