The Quintessential Mad Russian Scientist
“As I understand Leon Theremin’s personality, he was a kind of alien-child playing in a sandbox on a global playground. Like any eternal child, Theremin was always under supervision. And…
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“Stripping is as much a part of who I am as my Ph.D.”
$pread‘s Will Rockwell takes a stroll with Craig Seymour in New York’s Lower East Side to get the dish on the debut of Seymour’s recently released memoir, All I Could…
Staplerfahrer Klaus
If you’re heading out onto the job for the first time, you’d probably better wait a moment and watch Staplerfahrer Klaus, the most important safety-training video in any language. Matter…
Sony World Photography Awards
The winners from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, and thanks to this digital age we live in can be viewed without having to fly to France…
Lying in the Gutters
Comic-book gossip column Lying in the Gutters, hosted at Comic Book Resources, is one of the things that makes the subculture of comics so fascinating and exciting. Unlike most comics journalists,…
Beetle Weaponry
“Competition among males in the animal kingdom is often expressed in the form of elaborate weapons made of bone, horn or chitin. The weapons often start off small and then,…
Zoetrope: The Latin American Issue
Zoetrope: All-Story published their Latin American Issue this Spring, edited by Daniel Alarcón and Diego Trelles Paz. Read an interview with Alarcón on the arbitrary nature of anthologies and the…
The Poetry of Plunder: Wells Towers’ Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower’s first collection of short stories meditates on danger and beauty—and it’s funny as hell.
Jonzing for Arthur Jones
The animation of Arthur Jones has cheek and Attic wit. Whether in his videos for punk bands like Man Man and Need New Body, or his animated Post-It note shorts…
The Rumpus Oral History Project — Harry Ricker, Alaskan
It is -7º F outside. In his kitchen, Harry makes me tea. He is a broad-shouldered man with a prominent chin and a deep, smooth voice. He has been remodeling…
Scott Hutchins: The Last Book I Loved, The Easter Parade
It seems that every once in a while living writers pick a dead writer to gather around and champion, and this was definitely the case with Richard Yates around the…