Packing Up the Kids
“With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination.” According to the Smithsonian’s Flickr account, at least two children have been mailed…
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Troy Davis Roundup
Troy Davis, if you haven’t heard, is scheduled to be executed today in the state of Georgia. There are significant questions as to his guilt. Of the nine eyewitnesses, seven…
Once I Was: Meghan O’Rourke’s Once and All the Reasons I Am and Am Not Her
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Meghan O’Rourke’s second book of poems, Once, as the September selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
“What Every Woman Should Know”
“What Every Woman Should Know” is an illustrated report by Rumpus contributor Susie Cagle “on the war that’s being waged against women’s health in the United States.” Don’t miss it.
“Things We Never Told You: Ode to a Bookstore Death.”
“We hate when a book becomes popular simply because it was turned into a movie.” GalleyCat has posted “a bitter bookseller’s manifesto.”
Gabriel García Márquez Sales Are Up in Tehran
Former Iranian prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is under house arrest for his opposition of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently encouraged his daughter to read Gabriel García Márquez’s News of…
Our Conversations Cold-Pressed
Danielle Cadena Deulen has assembled a collection that deftly maneuvers through dew-formed natural worlds, myths, and histories gone wrong to create a poetry collection that I found hypnotic and, at…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh man, I sure hope the Low Line park gets made. Let’s take a look at all the world’s submarine cables. Perhaps you’ve wondered what the mathematically average font would…
“The Phantom Tollbooth” Anniversary
“Juster was an architect who’d written a book that didn’t fit the mold of children’s books at the time — its puns were too sophisticated, the vocabulary was too difficult,…
“We Are Wisconsin”
We Are Wisconsin—The Wisconsin uprising in the words of the activists, writers, and everyday Wisconsinites who made it happen is a 300-page compilation of writings—from articles to tweets—that sprung from…