Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/9-11/15
This week, get down with The Rumpus at Hate To Be Alone, learn how to go down at Women Like Me with Carol Queen, and redefine Jewish identity at Austin…
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Why Do Serial Killers Always Keep a Scrapbook…
or talk in riddles, or compose weird rhymes about their crimes? This story, by this great writer, is like a real life Silence of the Lambs!
Annals of Advertising: The “Hand of God” Bra
(via Violet Blue) More from the annals of advertising.
Notable New York, This Week 11/9 – 11/15
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Rivka Galchen at Harper’s Magazine’s The Family Table, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk, Mary Gaitskill, John Turturro, and Eric Bogosian at…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #10
I’m sure they’re dolphins, Doug. Well then you can slather some SPF 80 on your pussy and sit here on the beach with the rest of the moms. I rented this boogie board for…
Serialization, Part 1.
Shya Scanlon has written an essay for The Faster Times entitled “Stay Tuned: on the Future of Web Serialization.” The essay is about the different types of literary serialization Scalon…
Morning Coffee
In 1924 the Navy was ordered to listen for martians. The Italian Futurist pasta sauna. You’ve probably seen things like this a million times, but damn it sometimes you just…
Breaking: Writers Are Eccentric And Enjoy Bathtubs, Charts
The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed a bunch of writers to see how they do it. Of course, they called it “How to Write a Great Novel,” but I’m not…
Secret Treaty Is Very, Very Scary
Boing Boing, the EFF and Michael Geist are reporting that a secret treaty that could determine the future of file sharing is being negotiated without any input from the public…
What Authors Have To Do With It
“When I first read E.B.White, I was brand new to reading and brand new to life. It didn’t occur to me that he was some man, that his characters were invented…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Because I have way too much time on my hands, and because it’s oddly fitting this week, the book blog roundup is in the form of a dialogue between a…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books published a review of Robin Ekiss’s debut poetry collection, the second installment of Sam J. Miller’s 25-word reviews, an interview with Molly Crabapple, and some more…