The May Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: Fresh Starts and New Mistakes May 10th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Keith Lee Morris, Jillian…
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Beautiful Science
“NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes.” Ok, we can’t…
Hevisaurus!
This is a metal band for kids made up of dinosaurs. Yes, we are considering moving to Finland. (via dlisted)
Czechoslovakian Expose Redux
The series that will never die. (My favorite installment is still this one.) For those just tuning in, I find these covers by spending hours browsing online Czech and Slovak…
SFIFF53: Dispatch #2, Top Films to See
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. At the press conference for the festival given a few weeks ago, programming director Rachel Rosen…
National Poetry Month: Day 22. “Guaranteed to Work Throughout Its Useful Life” by Steven D. Schroeder
Guaranteed to Work Throughout Its Useful Life Okay, leverage it in an awesome way. 1. Open the onboarding manual, even if your paradigm shift is mission-critical. 2. Matrix memo: you…
Morning Coffee
I don’t even drink coffee. This is Walter Green still, filling in for Dan Weiss. “Connecticut mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend.” And I can’t even get poked! Hi-yo! Crows…
The Rumpus Interview with David Goodwillie and Teddy Wayne
Two debut novels addressing – amongst other topics ripped from the Zeitgeist – the symbiotic relationship between terrorism and the media, appear this month in bookstores:
The Next Big Hit
Literary magazines, once the backbone, the pulse, and other anatomically analogous words of the American fiction world, have taken a hit in subscriptions in recent decades. Does this mean the…
NYC and SF Readers
New York readers, are you looking for something to do tonight? Why not check out Maile Chapman discussing her debut novel, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto? The event will…