Morning Coffee
Shockingly not boring: a look inside an English cardboard factory. Children’s books from Poland. WWI-era airplane detection hearing aids. Could the common cold be the trick to avoiding swine flue?…
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Ceasefire Liberia And The Promise of the Internet
Going through the book blogs every week, I read a lot about how the Internet is ruining everything — from publishing to our attention spans to investigative journalism to our…
“Writers die twice”
“Writing remains a very interesting job, but destiny, or “fat Fate”, as Humbert Humbert calls it, has arranged a very interesting retribution. Writers lead a double life. And they die…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs had a great week — here’s some of what they have to say: This is very cool. Check out The Underground Library, a community in which “books…
Sunday Rumpus Political Links
I swear to God if I hear one more thing about Sarah Palin I’m going to snap, so this week, The Rumpus is giving you a roundup of political links…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday, and as always, Rumpus Books has reviews for you. Come read!
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Rumpus has already mentioned W. S. DiPiero’s essay about walking in San Francisco from the November issue of Poetry, but there are others dealing with the same general idea…
Scroll Down
Every once in a while, I have to remind myself to scroll down the page–it’s easy to get locked in to what’s at the top of the blog, at the…
Science Saturday
Martian landscapes that will blow your mind. There’s water on the moon, and that has implications for future manned space travel. Unmanned non-lethalwhale hunting looks pretty cool. To protect yourself…
Swinging Modern Sounds #17: Higher Love
Recently, I was given an assignment by Rumpus film critic and friend Ryan Boudinot to write about one of those pieces of music that is so execrable, so thoroughly gangrenous,…
Notable South Florida, This Week 11/14-11/20
This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one…