November 2012
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Skip the Forced Family Fun and Volunteer This Thanksgiving
Seriously, this Thanksgiving, would you rather 1) endure awkward conversations with those cousins with whom you have nothing in common, and yet another interrogation about your life choices from your grandmother, or 2) help out the homeless, the infirm, and…
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“1233. I was happy until I was actually happy at which point I wasn’t happy.”
The Millions muses on translation via Paul Legault’s The Emily Dickinson Reader and the magazine Telephone Journal. Both platforms have created English-to-English translations of classic pieces, through reinventions of childhood games and a format similar to SparkNotes. But the best response…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off this week, so we better link to 86 years of Thanksgiving Day Parade floats now. Midcentury architecture magazine covers (are great) Beware of Chinese space children. Has Curiosity found organic molecules? (Maybe!) Meanwhile,…
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I Am Sorry, Women
I haven’t been getting along very well with women lately. I don’t like admitting this. To admit this is, I have been told, is to admit that I don’t like myself. That I have a problem with myself. What’s wrong…
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Getting to Know Thurston Moore, Poet
“It was Moore’s, and Moore’s alone, unique dichotomy of rock star demagogue and unbridled fan of poetry that made his class worth the audit. Scansion, simile, synecdoche―such elements of praxis are lost on Thurston Moore, as they would any experimental…
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Thanks, The Atlantic
In discussing Kurt Vonnegut’s theory that you’re only allowed to be in love three times in a life, The Atlantic cites and praises our recent interview with Nanette Vonnegut, the late author’s daughter. We love you back!
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The Rumpus Interview with Craig Nova
Powerhouse novelist Craig Nova discusses his newest work, the terrors of the universe, the solaces of fiction, and his influences, from Albert Camus to Alice Munro.
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New T. S. Eliot Papers To Be Revealed
If you enjoyed reading about T. S. Eliot’s first wife, Vivienne, in Rumpus interviewee Kate Zambreno’s book Heroines, you might be interested to know that Eliot’s second wife, Valerie, recently passed away at the age of 86. What does that…
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New Readers Report Theme: “Storm Stories”
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Storm Stories.” While that’s a nod to Sandy, any and all storm stories…
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FUNNY WOMEN #91: Shower Gifts for the Traditional Bride
What to do to when faced with the task of buying a shower gift for the bride of a “traditional marriage”?
