Painted Leviathan
Inspired by Zak Smith, who illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow page by page, Matt Kish has set out to illustrate every page of Melville’s Moby Dick. You can find more of Kish’s…
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Yue Minjun: It Is Funny
Almost everything that Chinese artist Yue Minjun paints, sculpts or prints includes at least one man—closely resembling the artist himself—locked in laughter. Minjun’s work is delightful, infectious and brightly ironic.…
Random Media Notes
Editor & Publisher will publish January issue — hope remains? Magazines get ready for the tablet. Over 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry this year. France…
How to Destroy the Book: A Guide
Last month Cory Doctorow gave an eloquent and often-amusing speech at the National Reading Summit to an audience of “librarians, educators, publishers, authors and students” called “How to Destroy the…
Morning Coffee
Wired looks at the fine art of pulpy vhs box art. A handy Christmas facts info-graphic for you. Scienceray wants to talk to you about the Trogon family of birds.…
The Rumpus Review of Up in the Air
Up in the Air is sentimental, but that doesn’t mean it’s simplistic. In fact, the movie plays at some interesting contradictions. It is a genuinely funny movie about genuinely depressing…
Appalachian English
Fascinating excerpt on Appalachian English from the documentary film Mountain Talk.
More About Last Night
Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t…
Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t…
The Last Book I Loved: Life, Inc.
Although the title of this book would seem to promise another critique of the practices of specific corporations we do business with every day (often for a lack of alternatives),…