THE EYEBALL: Gran Torino
Port Townsend, Washington has two superb theaters, one called The Rose, the other The Uptown. By superb I mean they’re in old buildings, they don’t show commercials, the popcorn is…
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Ten People’s Favorite Blog
Flavorwire interviews online curator and blogger Leslie Miles about his visual curation site. “The concept was simple enough: No words. Just images. Each post is a theme. The beauty is…
Swinging Modern Sounds #6: The Transcendental Signifier
Note: to the readers of this intermittent bulletin, I recognize in what follows that I am violating the compact I made a couple of months ago, to cover only unsigned,…
What I Learned at AWP
The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
The Rumpus Interview with Jacob Weisman
“You can’t just stick a rocketship on the cover of a book and expect it to sell. That’ll work for the Hard SF readership, but that’s not going to sell…
A FAN’S NOTES— The New Rumpus Literary Sports Blog
Is there an American sportswriter alive right now who’s better than Michael Lewis? Although his long Sunday Times Magazine piece on Houston Rockets forward Shane Battier feels mildly formulaic in…
The Rumpus Long Interview with Andrew W.K.
“I used to think that you had to be in a lot more pain and going through a lot more struggle to really prove that you were working hard, but…
How Judges Think
When it comes to trying to understand people, Richard Posner is an American Sigmund Freud.
Private Sector Detention
Last week Pennsylvania judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. plead guilty to illegally prosecuting minors, in order to get kickbacks from privately-run juvenile detention centers. Children were sentenced to three months incarceration for…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy Singles Awareness Day, everyone. Here’s a Valentine from Louis Zukofsky to help you finish the night off right. AWP wasn’t the only party this past week–Josh Corey has photos…
The Rumpus Interview with Yiyun Li
“The style in the second collection is more developed, more established. I feel like I’m more mature as a storyteller now and I also know what kind of stories I…