ORBooks Walk Away From Amazon
“For every e-mail we get querying why our books are not available on Amazon, we get another saying how much our new approach is appreciated.” ORBooks has pulled its publications…
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Straight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
Photos of McQueen
While we’re not big on celebrity here at the Rumpus, we did link to these previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe when LIFE made them public this past summer. So…
Words After Death
“I am against the posthumous publishing of a late author’s work unless it can be proven without a doubt that posthumous publication is the express wish of the author. If…
“Another of those long and agonising breakdowns.”
“For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered in a barn or a village shop. But by now all…
Is Google Just the Beginning?
“A new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that a growing number of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in China—thirty-eight per cent, up from twenty-three per cent…
Godzilla Haiku: Why Less is More
At first I was excited about this. Combine two Japanese cultural traditions — contemplative poetic exercise and atomic age monster from the deep — and you get humor and existential…
Suffocating in the Villa des Charmes
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Adrienne Mesurat by Julien Green, 1929:
Morning Coffee
It is important to remember that the world can be pretty ok. Oh hey tiny robot fish, what’s up? Did you know there was an Art Handling Olympics? Presumably you…
The Rumpus Original Combo: The Red Riding Trilogy
The Rumpus Review of the Red Riding Trilogy and a Conversation with Directors Julian Jarrold and James Marsh The Red Riding Trilogy, which recently opened in U.S. theatres, is both…
Google Pulls Out of China
“Earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search…