A Handful of Dusted
Selections from A Handful of Surprises by Anne Heathers and Estéban Frances (1961)
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2011
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Notable New York, This Week 1/10-1/16
This Week in New York the Rumpus Women take Brooklyn; storytelling from Sex Workers Literati, the Moth, and Sideshow Goshko; inspired words from Patricia Smith and Willie Perdomo; Douglass Rushkoff…
The Complicated World of Adults
A volume of new and selected stories by Edith Pearlman reveal the subtleties of her characters’ inner lives—and the surehanded mastery of their author.
The Last Book I Loved: Arctic Dreams
A few years back, when I was deciding between graduate school in history or anthropology, a tenured professor at one of the top-ranked anthropology programs explained to me over coffee…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I just love photographs of abandoned places so much, you know? This is an article about fighting pirates with lazers. 2011 is awesome. Pavel Filonov is your Russian avant-garde artist…
Wanna Write Right On Top Of The Internet?
Ever get so frustrated with the Internet that you wanna just take a pen and write right on top of the screen? Well, that happened to me so many times…
GChat, the Modern Diary
I do some of my best writing in GChat. It’s my most used method of communicating. I have a smartphone so I can GChat from it, making phone calls is…
What Happens to Your Online Presence After Your Death?
“This has inspired a variety of entrepreneurs to place bets that, eventually, people will want control over the afterlife of their digital selves. Several promise to manage the details of…
Recycle Your Books!
“Most paper recyclers can’t process the glue that binds books along the spine. Some people donate them, of course, or try to resell them, but so many books wind up…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I haven’t been this sick in a long, long time, so it will be a very short roundup today. Can someone remind me what it’s like to breathe through your…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Short one tonight–I just don’t have the will to look for poetry stories given what’s gone down today in Arizona. So think of this more as an announcements post. The…