August 2012
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On Inspiration
Courtesy of The Story Prize Blog, author Adam Prince gives some helpful advice on the truth behind inspiration: I think inspiration is largely a myth. It’s tied to the myth of talent, which makes writers seem like we’re special people,…
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A Die-Hard Fan’s Lament
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond, an unwavering Oakland Raiders fan, writes for The New York Times about being a true sports fan, specifically a fan of a floundering team: “As I prepare to immerse myself in another season of ill-fated devotion, there is…
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The Muscle of Beauty, The Body as Protest
We are not ashamed of our bodies – we are not afraid of them. We will celebrate their tremendous power. We will dance in honor of them, in churches or on the steps of Capitol Buildings or in front of…
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Thanks, Feministing!
Feministing gives big love to this week’s must-read essay by Lidia Yuknavitch, “Explicit Violence.” We love you back!
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Opening Day For reKiosk
reKiosk is officially up and running! The site functions as a platform for artists to sell their music, books, and any other digital file directly to their fans, as well as being a social networking site to connect said artists and fans:…
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A Glimpse Into Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The Millions allows readers the opening paragraphs of DT Max’s David Foster Wallace biography: “The Wallaces ate at 5:45 p.m. Afterward, Jim Wallace would read stories to Amy and David. And then every night the children would get fifteen minutes…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Groff
Anyone who knows Lauren Groff’s fiction would not be surprised to find that as a child in upstate New York her favorite stories were Brothers Grimm fairy tales, and by her teens she was determined to be a writer. After…
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The Iliad, Improved
Rumpus head illustrator Jason Novak has another cool panorama over at The Paris Review. Titled “The Iliad, Improved,” Novak puts his own spin on the Greek epic: “I’d originally intended to treat the story without embellishment but just couldn’t allow poor Ajax to…
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Traveler by Devin Johnston
“One can no more locate the unconscious impulse to a poem among the synapses of the brain,” Devin Johnston writes in the preface to Precipitations, his study of the relationship between contemporary poetry and the occult, “than one could uncover…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s terrifying thing: a bioluminenscent cockroach. Robot sports are the best kind of sports. Fridtjof Nasen, Polar Explorer is this weeks most bad-ass dude. Maybe the universe started with a big freeze instead, maybe a lot of things. It’s Friday…
