Taylor Swift, Feat. Willie Shakespeare
Taylor Swift, Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, Mumford and Sons—they’ve all got a surprising musical forefather in the Bard of Avon. Looking for more literary musical references of the week? Check…
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Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
Ellen F. Brown reviews Tony Hoagland's Application for Release from the Dream today in Rumpus Poetry.
We Need Diverse Editors
At the end of the day, maybe the responsibility to publish diverse perspectives falls onto publishers and editors. Over at Paper Darts, Rachel Charlene Lewis argues that if we really…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Friday so how about we all read Andrew Bujalski’s unified theory of Rocky. Your gut is, like, so strange. More unbuilt things: Frei Otto’s Arctic City. From inside…
The Rumpus Interview with Elisabeth Egan
Elisabeth Egan discusses her debut novel, A Window Opens, life as a book lover, workplace jargon, and the question we should ask ourselves in place of can we “have it all”.
Living with the Cloud
How did we come to place our faith in a symbol that is so ephemeral—all vapor and crystal? The New Yorker explores how the metaphor of “the cloud” is shaping…
Writers and Running
Nick Ripatrazone on why writers need to run: While on sabbatical in London in 1972, a homesick Oates began running “compulsively; not as a respite for the intensity of writing…
?uestlove’s Rivalry with Finding Nemo
With Finding Dory, the sequel to the Pixar hit, coming to theaters soon, ?uestlove has been inspired to recount a Nemo-related anecdote: apparently, one time Prince fired the artist from…
Author Dislikes Bad Review
A self-published British author disliked the online review left on Amazon by a Scottish teenager. His response was to travel the 500 miles from London to find her in a…
Raymond Chandler’s Writing Legacy
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too greatly gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and…
The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York
But when my loneliness feels as vast—and capable of drowning me—as the sea, this book about self-destruction comforts me more than any self-help.
Song of the Day: “California”
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Claire Boucher describes her song “California” as “kind of shitty.” Via her stage name, Grimes, Boucher has released an eclectic and not-at-all-“shitty” catalogue of hybrid dance…