June 2012
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Rebirth of the Epigram
“Twitter’s formal properties bend, simultaneously, in opposite directions: toward the essential but also the superfluous, the concise but also the verbose.” n+1 gets all philosophical about the tweet.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #42: The Miracle
A few weeks ago, I stayed in on a Friday night reading Hannah Arendt’s essay “What is Freedom?”
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Problem Solving: Part 1
When we talk about issues of representation, many editors say, “Where do I find writers of color?” I’d like to start to answer that question by compiling a working list of writers of color, across genres. Please feel free to…
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The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, by Ivan Vladislavic
In his recent blend of fiction, essays, and literary genealogy, The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, South African writer Ivan Vladislavic delves into the dazzling enigmas of unwritten work. He draws from his personal notebooks over the past two…
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Art as Witness
“I believe Nina Simone tried to build that gun because that night she realized what all other-ed bodies eventually realize: a gun was already at her head. She feared a song might not be enough. The fact that this gun…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A 50-million-year-old turtle orgy. Turns out most people would like more meat in their antibiotics. Or fewer antibiotics in their meat. What was that book?
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelly Hogan
Never underestimate the value of knowing how to play well with others.
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Lonely Art
“…Loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of our desires and actions, and at the same time shameful…
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Don’t “Do” Rome
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard writes about why we shouldn’t “do” cities. “To suggest that a city or site can be “done,” like dishes, the laundry, or homework, reduces said city to the limits of the do-er’s consciousness or experience.”
