April 2014
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Where Betty Byrne Lived
Story is an integral part of the city of Dublin. Bronze statues of beloved writers roam the landscape, immortal: Wilde lounges “languidly on a crag in the park at Merrion Square,” while Joyce is “depicted rather more severely in bronze, leaning on his cane…
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Girls Write Now NYC Reading This Friday!
Girls Write Now, an awesome organization that works with underserved teenage girls in New York to develop their creative voices, continues their 2014 CHAPTERS reading series with an evening featuring author, reporter, and broadcaster Farai Chideya and original work from Girls Write Now…
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The Rise of a New Socialist Literary Scene
Facing financial inequality and burdened with debt, millennials have discovered Marxism, writes Timothy Shenk for the Nation. And millennial writers are leveraging technology, rejecting old guard institutions, and constructing new forums for discussion: Combine all this with some fondness for…
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National Poetry Month Day 23: “Embers of Smoldering Homes” by Sean Singer
Embers of Smoldering Homes It is a major war from a manufacturing plant near Ciudad Juárez, a concrete dust smell from the maquiladoras cools. There is a pool of liquid forming on the stone floor. When Érika Gándara, the only…
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Please, Sir, I Want Some More
Designer, director, and “amateur table-setter” Dinah Fried has recreated a number of iconic meals from famous fiction: tequila, grapefruits, and cigarettes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; the bowl of chowder from Moby Dick; the cheese sandwich from Catcher in the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Astra Taylor
Driven by philosophical thought, Astra Taylor—documentary filmmaker, activist, and writer—looks at the way the Internet has affected social and economic change in her new book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age.
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Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin
Alexis Orgera reviews Mark Irwin’s Large White House Speaking today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jeff Albers
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jeff Albers. Here’s an excerpt: These parties normally had a certain rhythm that suited Frank’s style, so relaxed and casual as to lead him to coin his own time signature, Loesserando, which, he…
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Joyce Proves as Difficult to Translate as to Read
The first of three parts of a Chinese translation of Finnegans Wake consumed eight years of translator Dai Congrong’s life. The almost unreadable book proves even more difficult to translate because of the many puns and layered meanings, explains MobyLives: The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I want to believe: is there still a underground “house of the future” in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park? While we’re on the topic, Silicon Valley is losing its domes. The world sure does get hit by asteroids a lot. The solution…
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FUNNY WOMEN #115: Craigslist Formal Encounters
Gentleman randy for high culture interested in encounter at the opera with discreet female. Let us sit in the dark together and partake in a sexy live show. Arias and outcalls only.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Jeffrey Greene and the Prison Arts Program
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.