August 2012
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It wasn’t a very essay-heavy weekend here at The Rumpus, but we still published all kinds of good stuff. Check it out: Amy Cheney, who has worked as a librarian in a detention center for the past 12 years, recommends…
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Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here’s a few very short stories for your Monday morning: “When a door opens and you can’t see who’s coming, it’s almost always a cat that would like to be your lover.” — At BLIP MAGAZINE, “The Cat Lover” by…
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If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter
If only we could all go back to that time before all beginning.
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Notable New York, This Week 8/27-9/2
This week in NYC: MONDAY 8/27: Words by the Water this week showcases Electric Literature, with readings by Katie Bellas, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Fiona Maazel. East River State Park, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 8/28: This month’s Fiction Addiction features readings by…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is of course the best possible time to see what E.B. White wrote about the moon landing. Also, here are some space pictures. Underwater secrets are cool too! Oh, hey, I wonder what Olafur Eliasson is up to. Now…
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The Rumpus Interview with Bucky Sinister
An illustrated interview with author, comedian, and poet Bucky Sinister about his new book, Time Bomb Snooze Alarm.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Live in Chicago? The multi-city, roving reading series, Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, is back, hosted by Sunday Salon Chicago, tonight. Black Rock Pub, 3614 N. Damen, 8pm. Performers include Megan Stielstra, Jac Jemc, Eugene Cross and Lauryn Allison. I’m emceeing…
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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Three Poems
David Hernandez returns to The Sunday Rumpus with whimsically intense new poems and artwork, in this second of a two-part installment.
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This is a Link-Heavy Saturday
I had a terribly busy week. One of the things keeping me busy, I’d like to mention, is the excitement over the release of D.T. Max’s Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which goes…
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Sending Vibes Through Squids
BoingBoing documents the research of Backyard Brains, which, as of late, has consisted of monitoring how playing Cyprus Hill affects a squid’s chromatophores. The results look not unlike an iTunes Visualizer: “Greg Gage of the DIY neuroscience company Backyard Brains stimulated the axons…
