June 2012
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Roxane Gay’s Salon Column
The exciting news for Rumpus rockstars keeps coming: Our essays editor Roxane Gay will be a weekly columnist at Salon. Congrats! We can’t wait to read her first column. And readers, don’t worry, she won’t be leaving us.
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Oprah’s Book Club Returns with Sugar’s Wild
Oprah is reviving her book club. Her first pick? Cheryl Strayed’s Wild! Hooray for Sugar! “I want to shout it from the Web. In fact, I love this book so much and want to talk about it so much, I…
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Walt Turns 193
Walt Whitman’s birthday was yesterday. Happy belated! Melville House pieced together pictures of Whitman’s notebooks and some of his best “come-hither” glamour shots, all taken from Library of Congress’s massive collection and The Walt Whitman Archive. There’s even a wax…
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The Rumpus Interview with Brett Walker
“Put yourself in a frame of mind that you can allow whatever’s going to happen, happen, and be okay with it. If you walk into a room and immediately put up walls, you’ll never find the doors.”
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Economists Set Phasers on Stun
Nobel prize winning economist and NYT‘s columnist, Paul Krugman expresses his love for sci-fi and fantasy in an interview for Wired magazine. Krugman cites Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation as his inspiration for becoming an economist, a damned responsible one at…
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Enigma and Light, by David Mutschleener
Every once in a while, when I’m reading something, sorting through the words in a half-daze, my brain will just click. I’ll get it. I’ll take on an understanding of the text that allows me to better understand the author’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Summer is (not technically) here! Enjoy National Parks from space! Just kidding, it’s spring! Let’s venture into the mole tunnels. Gothamist wants to share its favorite cats with you. Maybe it is illegal to believe in global warning in North Carolina…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #36: This Is Bob Dylan to Me
The Rumpus has made it possible for me to talk to a lot of musicians I might not otherwise have met, but meeting Mike Watt, founding member of The Minutmen, fIREHOSE, Dos, etc., has to be the most memorable encounter…
