Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are running out of sand. I will never not link to pictures of North Korean architecture TBH. Yo, but like, why are whales so big? Utopian mall architecture as…
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2017
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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother
I like to listen to my mother’s voice; the sounds she makes in an English-Korean mashup; we are each the other’s dictionary.
Introducing Vanishing Ink!
Drawing inspiration from the punk rock zine culture of their youth and a shared love of radio, The Rumpus’s own Allyson McCabe is teaming up with Kevin Wortis (Girlie Action…
Finding Shelter
A hurricane is coming. Rita is in the Gulf of Mexico and is approaching Houston at a slow but steady pace of nine miles an hour. I don’t have many, or any, illusions that God and Jesus will see us through.
Notable Los Angeles: 5/29–6/4
Monday 5/29: Happy Memorial Day! Take a moment to remember those who served and are no longer with us. Jonathan Gould, with Tom Vickers, discusses and signs Otis Redding: An Unfinished…
The Story Is the Concepts: Philosophizing with Ryan Ruby
Ryan Ruby talks about his debut novel The Zero and the One, the challenges of pacing and plot, and the fun of inventing a book of philosophy for the novel.
Notable Twin Cities: 5/28-6/3
Sunday 5/28: It’s the Edina Art Fair! Check out all the super cool art, food, and entertainment the fair has to offer, and spend some time on the posh streets of…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Hello
All those prank calls were partly a way of taking control of the unknown, the ambiguity of that space between “hello” and whatever comes next.
Notable NYC: 5/27–6/2
Saturday 5/27: Hossannah Asuncion and Che Gossett join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Tuesday 5/30: Samantha Irby presents her new essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real…
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suzuki and Kawasaki in the Dominican Republic
We are all punchlines. Projections of projections of projections. But whose joke is it? And where is the bill?