Saturday Morning Links
Guess who’s got copies of his new book for sale. The surprise news last night was that Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC is no more. The interesting thing about the…
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Funny Women Around the Web: Jenny Hagel
Jenny Hagel, the filmmaker/comdienne who made the Feminist Rapper webseries (see below), released a new short comedy film online this week. “Tech support” is about a woman who falls in…
Reynolds Price
“Reynolds Price, the prolific author and longtime professor at Duke University,” died yesterday at the age of 77.
Last Night At The Grave
On January 19th, for the second year in a row, the infamous ‘Poe Toaster’ failed to appear at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. Virginia Clemm (the pen name of this essay’s…
The Trick of Thinking Through Infinity: Book Club Round-Up
I remember/ the trick of thinking through infinity, a crowd of eyes/ against an asphalt wall, writes Timothy Donnelly in his poem “The Cloud Corporation.” If you haven’t had the…
Impossible Love
Last month we asked our readers to write about “Family/Holidays,” a few weeks later we ran another “Rumpus Readers Report” that featured stories about “neighborhood.” Well we’re hungry for more…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s a week for CEO shuffle. Eric Schmidt is no longer heading up Google. And speaking of Google, they’re releasing a Groupon competitor, Google Offers. Wondering how much it costs to…
Have You Told a Story Today?
Good news for those of us who like to tell a tale, “story-telling may help to lower blood pressure.” (via TheBookBench)
Your Frills Are Made of Bone
The Haunted House… tumbles through a teenage-girl world, giddy and feverish, at times drunk on foiled friendships and empty kisses, and at others sober with the knowledge that this tumultuous…
Interviews with Jim Shepard
The Rumpus Book Club’s February pick is You Think That’s Bad, a new collection of short stories by Jim Shepard. For the last decade, Shepard has been an open…
KUSF Silenced
On Tuesday morning the University of San Francisco closed their radio station, KUSF. More precisely, they sold the bandwidth. We don’t really understand what it means to sell an FCC…