2011
-
Fatima Bhutto
Was Benazir Bhutto really a feminist? Her own niece Fatima Bhutto, a vocal critic of Benazir and the current Zardari administration, doesn’t think so. Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman recently spoke with Fatima, author of the controversial memoir Songs of Blood…
-
More Donald
Truthdig has an excerpt from Donald, the new novel by Eric Martin and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott released February 8 from McSweeney’s. You can purchase signed copies of Donald directly from The Rumpus.
-
The Air in the Cages is Dust
One of the great strengths of this book is Flynn’s refusal to luxuriate in self-importance. Instead, he displays a consistent awareness that the poetry of war is not war itself, but dwells in the incorporeal rather than the actual.
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The BBC has really been bringing it this week, nature-wise. “Reasons not the think outside the box.” Penguins understand what to and not to freeze. I have one last word for you: Anti-laser.
-
Hysteria Revisited: Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet
The Rumpus Interview with artist Julie Bolene. Julie Bolene’s nudes appear shiny and dead. There are finger bones protruding from hands and bluish white faces.
-
Dyer On Reader’s Block
“If reading heightens your responses, shapes your idea of the world, gives you a sense of the purpose of life, then it is not surprising if, over time, reading should come to play a proportionately smaller role in the context of the myriad…
-
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
You know the next financial bubble’s really building when people start denying there’s a bubble. Netflix won’t be working on most Android phones anytime soon. Google’s taking another crack at social, with a new social search system that draws on your friends’…
-
No Government World Record
I’m only a little bit Belgian but enough to have pride when “my country” celebrates a new record: going the longest of any country without a functioning government. To honor this record, I suggest a monastic ale paired crash course…
-
Wisdom Of The Day
Comes from Gary Snyder from his influential and beautiful book of essays, The Practice Of The Wild. It’s in the opening essay, “The Etiquette Of Freedom” where he says: “Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness,…
-
Sometimes You Read a Comment So Dumb, It’s Worth Making Fun Of
A special Rumpus Note from comedian Eugene Mirman regarding a commenter at NPR:
-
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #65: Transcend
Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.