April 2014
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Celebrating DIY Ethos
The Brooklyn Zine Fest returns this weekend with a two-day long event and more than 150 writers, artists, and publishers. The festival celebrates self-published chapbooks and includes panel discussions on a variety of topics. Most zines are between $1 and…
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Shakespeare’s Women
In honor of the Bard’s 450th birthday, The Millions presents us with an analysis of Women Making Shakespeare, a new anthology from The Arden Shakespeare series edited by Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughan. They have a few questions about the…
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Where It All Began
After Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s passing last Thursday, the New Yorker opened its archives to those compelled to get their hands on something from the “voice of Latin America.” One of the more interesting pieces in the archive is “The Challenge,” in which…
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Notable Portland: 4/24–4/30
Thursday 4/24: Enjoy a cup of coffee at the Kaplan Storytelling Event, featuring Kaplan students reading from their latest stories. Glyph, 4 p.m., free. Lewis & Clark hosts its annual release party for The Literary Review, which showcases student writing.…
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National Poetry Month Day 24: “After Aftermath” by Cate Marvin
After Aftermath Orphaned boys plus my mean calculations. Orphan boys plus desire equals their long bodies. How they sucked summer-long water off a garden hose from beside the trailers. Their mean mothers weary of them sharing rooms in mental hospitals:…
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All the Good Literary Citizens
The idea of literary citizenship suggests writers should belong to a kibbutz of bibliophiles where everyone contributes to the greater good by writing reviews, attending readings, and supporting independent, neighborhood retailers. But all this goodhearted community camaraderie has devalued writing…
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Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Penman reviews ASTONISH ME by Maggie Shipstead today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What we all need today are some relics from the uranium rush. The oldest (recently) living woman and the limits of life. Have crime rates been falling all because we took lead out of gas? Ads in the 30s were…
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Make/Work Episode 11: Aaron Siegel
In Episode 11 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel.
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Lit Fic Is Just Another Genre
Jane Austen wrote for money. She also made readers laugh. So why are her books considered literature rather than genre fiction? Clever marketing, claims Elizabeth Edmondson over at the Guardian. Despite many attempts to define “literary fiction” as something dry…
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Passwords, Past and Present
Has Heartbleed got you stressed over your online security? Take comfort knowing that humans have been searching for the elusive perfect password for centuries—over at The Morning News, Mike Duncan and Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak take a look at passwords throughout…
