The History of Facebook
Facebook is the largest, fastest growing social site on the web, and yet its concept started in a college dorm room, and was (in part) modeled after one. Charles Peterson’s…
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New Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask,…
Morning Coffee
The Japanese are better at solar power than the rest of us. Tokujin Yoshioka’s rainbow church. Inhabitat brings you the book cell (thank you for this). Why yes, I would…
The Rumpus Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America
On June 13th, 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the New York Times began to publish excerpts of an internal Pentagon document that detailed the top-secret history of…
Recording Hunter
“It was a sound person’s nightmare/fantasy: squawking peacocks, refrigerator motors, thunderstorms, bug zappers, ice machines, phone calls from people in prison, seemingly random bloodcurdling screams, and the general din of vice.” In…
Camo Cupcakes
Dear Marketing Assholes, We here at The Rumpus are pretty damn sick of things like the Dodge Super Bowl commercial (cleverly spoofed here), or any “modern men are emasculated” ad…
Tune of the Day
Artists: Tape Deck Mountain Song: “Ghost Colony” [Tape Deck Mountain is playing tonight at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco as part of the Noise Pop Festival.]
Mutations of Meaning
A first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships.
“What is the worst sentence you ever wrote?”
Jami Attenberg: “It’s hard to pick just one. I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse, and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not…
FUNNY WOMEN #17: Coming Out Letter, October 2007
Dear Professor Julie Abraham, It’s midnight, and I have to tell you about The Death of the Heart, and how Elizabeth Bowen is clever, and tragic, all at the same…
Launch Party for Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America
Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America is hitting stands this week across the country, and the pond. Issue 2 features dialogues with Lydia Millet, Adrian Tomine and Sam Lipsyte, fiction from…
“Zach Galifianakis” Interviews “John Wray”
Zach Galifianakis in conversation with John Wray, the author of Lowboy. (via Vol. 1 Brooklyn)