A Puzzling Gender Gap
When I was twenty, I submitted a puzzle that [Will Shortz] rejected. He cited MALE GAZE among the entries he found unworthy of publication. I don’t doubt that a woman…
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Nicole Antebi and Miki Golod
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 Monday nights 7-9 p.m.…
The Floating Library of Minnesota
With 10,000 lakes, it was bound to happen: The Floating Library, an eight foot square stocked with 80 books. Most of the volumes are handmade art books, the Star Tribune…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Simone Muench
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Simone Muench about repurposing text, wolves and the lyrical "I" in her book Wolf Centos from Sarabande Books.
Weekly Geekery
Social media, journalism, Ferguson, and challenging power. The Internet cannot have nice things. We’re all horses. So, where’s our Black Beauty? The nature of creativity. You guys, you guys, Buzzfeed isn’t…
The Bookstores Will Survive
A bright spot in the midst of all the back-and-forth in the Amazon battle—Kate Brittain, at The Morning News, writes about the state of independent bookstores: I began my search in a…
“Short Attention Span is the New Avant-Garde”
In the final installment of its “What Would Twitter Do?” series, The Believer talks to MoMA Poet Laureate Kenneth Goldsmith about how he views Twitter and its relationship to writing.
Walking Along Brighton Beach
As soon as Ashley came down the stairs from the subway, which rattles across a bridge over Brighton Beach Avenue, it all came tumbling out: who he really was and…
The Four Words for Home by Angie Chuang
Molly Beer reviews THE FOUR WORDS FOR HOME by Angie Chuang today in The Rumpus Books.
Books about Books
In 2011, Phyllis Rose read every book on the LEQ-LES shelf in the New York Public Library and wrote about the experience in an essay collection called The Shelf. In…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I take it back, Soviet Postcards is your real tumblr of the week. The time has come to learn what happens when a jellyfish stings you. Ok so black holes…
The Rumpus Interview with Morris Ratner
Trailblazing lawyer and professor Morris Ratner speaks to the Rumpus about the historic lawsuits against banks that profited from the Holocaust.