August 2012
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Sean Stewart and the Underground Press
“No matter how you feel about the whole thing, what can’t be denied is that millions of people feel betrayed. The people held up their end of the bargain and rightly feel that they got sold out.” At Guernica, Matthew Newton…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/6-8/13
This week in San Francisco . . . Monday 8/6 – Quiet Lightening will be having a reading at the Conservatory of Flowers as part of their summer series The Greenhouse Effect. Doors open at 6:30pm so people can peruse…
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A History of Mars Exploration
Last night, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars, beginning its year long exploration of the planet. The Guardian has compiled a short history of Mars musing, which highlights scientists’ fascination with the planet. Since their first sightings in…
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: LIZ PHAIR’S EXILE IN GUYVILLE
I must have heard about Liz Phair from Sassy Magazine, my go-to and, really, only source for anything remotely counter-culture in the early ‘90s.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #146
THE SALAD I SAW A KID EATING ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the salad I saw a kid eating.
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Sikh Temple Shooting
Our thoughts are with the victims of yesterday’s tragedy in Wisconsin. The suspect has been identified as Wade Michael Page, a 40-year old Army veteran and white supremacist. More on the man’s involvement with white-supremacy can be found here. “Racism…
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Pussy Riot Link Round-Up
Three women of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot are on trial in Russia for hooliganism, which carries a charge up to seven years in prison, following their arrest in March after a performance of what they’ve called a ‘punk prayer’…
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Weekend Essay Round-Up
We published so much good content this weekend, we hope you didn’t miss it. But just in case: Amber Sparks considers how religion can fuel one’s writing—even when the writer is secular. Thomas Page McBee gives us another “Self-Made Man,” further…
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Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Every Monday I link to very short fiction I like that I hope you’ll like too: “When we reach the street, the houses are dark, except for one—the grey one with the white trim, chain link fence, black oak tree.”…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/6-8/12
This week in NYC: MONDAY 8/6: Patti Smith reads from Woolgathering at Books Beneath the Bridge, followed by an interview with Ezra Goldstein, of Community Bookstore, and a signing. Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 8/7: WORD launches…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t know if this is the best place to post it, but Tig Notaro is the best person in the world. This is how it starts you guys. Rebel astronauts are the reason I get up in the morning.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
I don’t do Tumblr. In fact, I’m having acute paranoia that maybe I’ve just spelled or capitalized something wrong IN “Tumblr,” here in the public forum of The Rumpus. But this week there were a couple of cool, provocative links…