The Known World
Reviewing Sunset Park, I am behaving like a Paul Auster character, imagining a dialogue with a famous author, wondering about the ways fiction and reality overlap…”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t tell anyone but I’m totally in San Diego right now. Perhaps you would be interested in some origami today. Magma rain is the most extreme of all rains. Some…
Suppose I Kept on Singing Love Songs Just to Break My Own Fall
I don’t remember what I was doing when my aunt called to tell me my father was dying.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/10-1/16
This week in San Francisco: Finally muster the courage to hit on that one cute chick/dude at this month’s Monthly Rumpus, decorate your pad like it’s 1982 and you just…
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights”
Live in the Bay Area? Don’t miss “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights,” tonight (!) at The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street), 7pm. Featuring: Award-winning actress Amber Tamblyn, who recently published her…
“You must never, ever use this word.”
C. Max Magee remembers reading Huckleberry Finn as a child.
Zadie Smith and Nathan Englander
Check out this video of a conversation between Zadie Smith and Nathan Englander. The duo discusses David Foster Wallace, James Baldwin and more.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #69
DANCING WITH THE STARS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dancing with the Stars.
Best Shot From the Nine Eyes of Google
Collections of imagery culled from Google Street View have been around for some time now, but Jon Rafman has the best eye for discerning the funny, surprising, and poignant moments captured…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Verizon is getting the iPhone at last . . . and AT&T is not pleased. Big brother is upon us: Obama approves unique online ID number for all Americans. Japanese…
Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
(Yet Another) Rumpus Lamentation: It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway.