November 2012
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Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton has teamed up with Maria Popova (of Brain Pickings) to illustrate selected excerpts from Susan Sontag’s diaries. The artwork is available on Etsy as an 11×14 print on heavy cotton rag paper with razored edges in a limited edition of…
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thank goodness for the authors
“You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead—to which I say: Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.” Over at The Atlantic,…
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Throwback Art
Nostalgic for the 90’s art scene? Specifically 1993? Mark your calendars for The New Museum’s exhibit “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set Thrash and No Star,” a title borrowed from the Sonic Youth record which was released that year. The show features…
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Written Word as Basic Need
Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and countless other authors, intellectuals and humanitarian efforts, such as Libraries Without Borders, agree: books should be a part of emergency relief efforts. They’ve all come together to sign…
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Great Novels with Bad Endings
How many love affairs have you had with novels that ended abruptly, poorly, without cause or the “proper” resolution? You finish the last word, your arms hang limp, the novel collapses into your lap, and you mutter: seriously? In Joan…
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“The Lamp With Wings” by M. A. Vizsolyi
Love puts a lot of pressure on people to do things with each other. There are a lot of conditions to saying “I love you.” You have to act love out in the world, and it’s a big world, especially…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #19: The Pressure of the Real
I was in a Starbuck’s in central Connecticut trying to think about the election
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So yes, NASA probably DID find organic materials, but not on the planet we thought. Hurray for pinball based art! Planned cities seen from space. Lots and lots of old ships being found in the sea these days. It is…
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The Rumpus Interview with Russ Kick
Russ Kick, editor of The Graphic Canon and certified information hoarder, gives the lowdown on combining classic literature with comics, cruising for dates with Lord Byron, and masturbating fetuses.
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Tweet to Death
Check out Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Brooklyn Twitter mystery. You have until the end of today to help decide if the death in question was a “#suicide, #homicide, or an #accident?”
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Gilgamesh Has It Goin’ On
This past spring, Russ Kick edited the first volume of The Graphic Canon, which intertwines works of literature ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to A Picture of Dorian Gray accompanied with exquisite graphic art. Read the review at the…