June 2012
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Cabinet of Wonders
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders blends performances by musicians, authors and comedians into an hour-long variety show recorded live at New York’s City Winery. The first two episodes are already up, and the fifth episode will feature Rumpus columnist…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/4-6/10
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/4: TONIGHT: The Rumpus Celebrates Written Correspondence. 6:30pm at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street. Join us! Tuesday 6/5: The SF Open Mic Poetry series features Rose Mark and Larry Beresford at the Bay Area…
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Farther Away, by Jonathan Franzen
Bibliophysicists now speculate that no less than three parallel versions of Jonathan Franzen can coexist at any given moment, and the variant, some say, could be much higher. This assortment of Franzens—and how readers interpret them—can make an impartial reading…
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Cat Lady Covets Kafka
Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, wanted his remaining and largely unpublished literary works to be burned after his death, but in a turn of Kafkaesque events the manuscripts trickled down through time and eventually ended up in Eva Hoffe’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Space law you guys, space law. It is sometimes important to discuss reptiles’ chewing habits. Let’s take a look at the Olivetti buildings in Turin and Barcelona because they are pretty. At what points in 12 Angry Men does the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers’s new novel, A Hologram For The King, (due out from McSweeney’s June 28) is set in Saudi Arabia.
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Sunday Rumpus Interview: Joshua Mohr and Michelle Haimoff
Two nocturnal authors talk shop about insomnia.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Everyone probably already knows the Biggest News Around The Rumpus, but in case you’ve been in a remote rain forest with no internet access for the past two days, read about Oprah’s book club revival, with our own Cheryl Strayed’s…
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A Saturday Rumpus List of Writers In Unsuitable Employment
This week brought another spate of bad job-creation news in the United States. This surprised, I think, precisely no one other than pundits, whose job it is to be professionally surprised. The culture of work in this country is unstable…
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A Short Note on Critics and Criticism
David Carr and A.O. Scott have a short video up at the Times about the state of modern criticism. As the length would suggest, it’s a light discussion. The subject is really the reviewing of Hollywood-Industrial-complex movies rather than criticism writ…
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All Over Coffee #586
Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee, by Paul Madonna, is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. A free interactive APP of the…
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OG Dad Love
Media Bistro linked to Jerry Stahl’s OG (Old Guy) Dad series, highlighting yesterday’s “raw and gritty” OG DAD #7: A Stahl Is Born. Thanks, Media Bistro. We love you back!