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Old Man Winter Comes to Town
In attempt to cheer myself up about my city’s neverending thundersnow, I present here Beatrice Braun-Fock’s whimsical illustrations for Old Man Winter Comes to Town by Hilde Hoffmann. The German…
The Cost of Digital Lit
First there was the bitter move by Amazon to remove all Macmillan titles from its digital inventory after Macmillan demanded higher e-book pricing. Then two more publishing houses publicly denounced…
Morning Coffee
I was debating whether to link to Flavorwire’s write up on Roa’s Urban Zoo or their math-related pic of the day. But you know what, it’s Thursday so why not…
The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #4: Dumitru Tsepeneag on the Danube
Dumitru Tsepeneag is a Romanian novelist, essayist and one of the founders of the Romanian Oniric literary movement. Established in the mid-60s, the Oniric group was inspired by surrealism and…
A Context of “Romantic Relationships.”
The Poetry foundation has published “an emotionally devastating analysis of five love poems” by Tao Lin in honor of Valentine’s Day.
The Plath Cabinet
Many of the strongest poems in this poetical homage politicize Sylvia [Plath], showing her to be less a victim than a citizen of her time, whom history can misrepresent but…
Operation Titstorm
“Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.” That’s…
Gil Scott-Heron’s “Me And The Devil”
Read Rumpus contributor Steve Almond‘s recent interview with Gil Scott-Heron here.
Young Reviewers Competition
Are you 25 years old or younger? If so, you should enter the London Review of Books‘ Young Reviewers Competition. All you have to do is submit one review, “praising…