Hate’s Ugly Revival
“Over the last decade Hispanic immigrants have become the main focus of American hate groups. According to Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, after September 11, 2001, the…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #30: Pluck It From the Floor. And Onward You Go.
It’s a funny sort of reverse logic, how every now and then your vision is clearer when you constrict rather than expand it.
The King and the Lioness
So Mark Twain’s personal life? Complicated: “Documents known as a ‘blackmail dossier’ that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are to published…
“Will the iPad Matter?”
Yesterday the question was posed, “Will the iPad help books go viral?” Well MelvilleHouse Publishing doesn’t think so. In fact, they’re wondering if the iPad will matter at all, predicting…
Jon Adams Is King of the World
Today is the two-year anniversary of Rumpus comic artist extraordinaire Jon Adams‘ strip, Truth Serum. But that’s not all, the San Francisco Chronicle has revamped its weekend insert, 96 Hours, creating a…
The Jump-Off: Read with Sam Lipsyte
New York writers, win a chance to read your work alongside Sam Lipsyte at our NYC event on April 6. Lipsyte is one of our featured guests at A Night…
National Poetry Month: Day 1. Two Poems from W. S. Di Piero
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project, featuring new, previously unpublished poems by 30 different authors. We kick off the month with two poems by W. S. Di Piero.…
Morning Coffee
Listening to the music of the spheres. Very important information: how to repossess an airplane. As long as Olafur Eliasson keeps making things I will keep linking to them. Did…