November 2012
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Funny Women’s Elissa Bassist at The Paris Review Daily
At The Paris Review, Rumpus Funny Women editor, Elissa Bassist recounts how watching every horror movie on Netflix and Dear Sugar saved her from Brooklyn-induced depression. “‘How do I reach the page when I can’t lift my face off the…
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Dust Bowl vs. Objectivism
At The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus columnist Steve Almond narrates the debate between Atlas Shrugged and The Grapes of Wrath to help us decide who should lead our country, Steinbeck or Rand. Which philosophy would you vote for? “Grapes: The only…
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH MOUNT EERIE
Phil Elverum, who records as Mount Eerie (and formerly as Microphones) has the distinction of releasing not one but two acclaimed records, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar, in 2012.
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Sandy Roundup
Mother Jones is a good place for ongoing updates. Yesterday, their Climate Desk spoke with elderly NYC residents trapped without power. Our own Michelle Dean writes about “FEMA, Inequality and the Need for Better Government.” “Where Did All the Gasoline Go?” The Atlantic has…
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All-Story and The Conversation
Zoetrope’s fiction quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story is offering slices of cinematic history to lucky subscribers. Subscribe to the magazine before November 15th and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win one of fifty original 35mm frames from Francis Ford Coppola’s…
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“The 6.5 Habits of Moderately Successful Poets,” by Jeffrey Skinner
You might be forgiven if, like a kid looking through the newspaper for comic strips, you return to this book only to enjoy the humorous lists, tables, and other extras that punctuate the text. Like “The Periodic Table of Poetic…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: some facts about bats. Oh, here’s that Big Picture Sandy round-up I was looking for. Speaking of, did you hear about the skeleton the storm brought up? And won’t someone please think of the…
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Three Short Essays from The Hard Problem: A Guide for the Intergalactic Writer Looking to Mate
But books aren’t always babies and, perhaps, are not even babies most or any of the time. What are books?
