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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you heard? The Rumpus is a place for poetry. (My own thoughts on this subject here.) If you’re looking for a journal to subscribe to, Gulf Coast is a…
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
How are you planning to spend Nikola Tesla day? I first experienced Tesla, I’m almost ashamed to admit, in the fiction of Spider Robinson, but the fictionalized version intrigued me…
Science Saturday
“No evidence of scientific malpractice and no reason to doubt the credibility of the scientific claims being made by the East Anglia researchers.” For all the soccer/football fans out there:…
You, too, can be a terrorist without even trying
Joshua Holland, writing for AlterNet, discusses just how easy it is to run afoul of the US’s laws on providing material support to groups named as terrorist organizations: “The Supreme…
Saturday Morning Links
If you’re in south Florida and you need an honest mechanic, ask me. I’ve got the guy for you. Seriously. The Queen of England is being replaced by a squid.…
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After The Show, or, They Do It In The World Cup
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
For Us, the Daydreamers. From Science.
It just keeps progressing. Now scientific study is getting to the useful stuff, like re-inventing use into useless everyday things like daydreaming. Creativity depends on wandering. We all know it,…
The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #11: Nancy Lili Gonzalez
None of my furniture matches. Two red bar stools. One green cast iron chair, slowly turning gold. A chestnut drawer thing– I don’t know it’s proper name– it has three…
The Ascetic Fetish
Check out Flavorpill’s list of the 20th Century’s “most reclusive authors.” Is anonymity, as Salinger once said, “a writer’s greatest gift?” How limiting is the idea that writers are, by definition,…
Standardized Redactions
“What could be the purpose of an exercise testing students on such a lacerated passage — one which, finally, is neither mine nor true to my lived experience?” -Annie Dillard…
“You can never, ever, read this book, okay?”
Rumpus contributor Elmo Keep remembers her relationship with her father and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.