2012
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“Chance and Accident”
Over at The Smart Set, Morgan Mels writes something of a love letter to Marcel Duchamp, considering shame, chance and Romanticism, and the influences of each in Duchamp’s work. Probably not for those of you who fidget anxiously at the mention…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Architizer has your year in buildings. New York as linguistic graveyard. Not entirely dissimilar, The NY Times has a sweet slideshow of 80s subway graffiti. Perhaps you have wondered what age people are their least happy. The future of music…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Jackie
Her father had a first wife–her brothers a first mother. Author Elizabeth Tannen still searches for the elusive “Jackie” in relics of her youth.
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Lit-Link Round-up
This is going to be a short one–my mom got into a car accident the other day (on my dad’s 91st birthday no less) with my girls in the car, and things have been chaotic here. Mom’s having surgery for…
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What Is There To Say?
A lot of people are good at quick reactions to the kind of day we had yesterday. I’m not. I mean, of course, I had the usual thoughts. Ban the guns. The door opening, and the kids looking up. Oh,…
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Happy Birthday, Amy Hempel
Today is the brilliant Amy Hempel’s birthday! Check out this interview with her on Café Americain, where she praises Rumpus pals Steve Almond and Sheila Heti, and for means of celebration, read (or reread) her glorious short story The Harvest.
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A Virtual Tour of Austin Publishing
The Austin Chronicle has a nice roundup of the Austin publishing scene, from speculative-fiction journal Unstuck to a small press run by an ex-military spoken-word poet, to A Strange Object, the phoenix currently poised to rise from the ashes of American Short Fiction. It’s…
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That Very Special Reason
Eric G. Wilson has given up on the many possible higher education-approved, poet-referencing justifications for devoting your time to literary study. He will simply tell you, “Poetry makes you weird.” And in that we rejoice! Read further and explore the…
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Today, Enough
We are crying out for change, for a mental health care system that can truly help the people who soothe their inner torment by reaching for weapons of such destruction. We are crying out for gun control laws that, at…
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The Strange Power of Suttree
There’s this deeply cool new magazine about literature and rock music called Radio Silence, which we reviewed back in June, and they recently posted an essay titled “The Bottom” that will just about cave your head in. In it, Jim White…
