Thomas Bartlett
Pianist and New Yorker Thomas Bartlett was raised in rural Vermont by two devoted intellectuals. For the most part self-educated, save a few failed attempts at public high school and…
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Rumpus Articles
Rumpus Original Fiction: “Bobcat” by Rebecca Lee
The Rumpus welcomes Madras Press and proudly offers an excerpt from "Bobcat," by Rebecca Lee.
My (Hopeful) Addition to the Best of Wikipedia
Looks like they don’t have Noël Godin covered. I love a scoop! So I submitted the following:
Feminist Movement Depressing?
In a Los Angeles Times article published last month, Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, comments on a study by University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers…
Morning Coffee
Magazine offices are the new Detroit. A quality short story. The winner of the second annual World Building of the Year award: the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre. NY Times on the…
The Rumpus Interview with Able Brown
Meet Able Brown: artist, New York City park ranger, body-surfing enthusiast and stand-up comedian. His drawings and paintings have been included in group shows at several galleries, including a show…
The Dark Side of Sustainability
Curtis White’s essay in the new Tin House, “A Good Without Light,” contemplates the dark side of sustainability. In a word, he argues that sustainability, as a philosophy, is a…
Ron English Remembers the Berlin Wall, 1989
“The Berlin Wall was interesting because there was this group of East Germans that were sitting, protesting. The wall is on the side of East Germany—or it was. So they…
Heartlands
Four debut authors—Josh Weil, Skip Horack, Holly Goddard Jones, and Amy Greene—paint varied pictures of the South they know.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #9
THE BIBLE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Bible.