Books: A Man’s Best Friend
Grab some treats, mark your territory, and settle in with one of these reads to celebrate your favorite canine friends. The Rumpus picks? Argos, Fidel, and Junior.
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Charley Locke
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You can find Charley Locke's journalism on WIRED, tweets @CHARLEY_LOCKE, and drawings on her parents' fridge. You can also sometimes spot Charley imperiously making book recommendations while managing the McSweeney's Pop-Up Shops.
LARPing as W.E.B. Du Bois
Looking for a respite from the modern world? Take a whirl in “Virtual Harlem,” a virtual reality world designed by Bryan Carter, where you can live as avatars like Du…
Hugo and the Sad Puppies
The Hugo Award is one of the highest honors bestowed upon science fiction, a genre which is (finally) broadening to include a diversity of authors and views. That’s not a…
Wet with the Tears of a Pedant
Nearly every page of this book is wet with the tears of a pedant. Nostalgic for the wordplay of the Republican primary debate? Barton Swaim has got you covered in…
Young Black Writers Reflect on #blacklivesmatter
because I want to not cry because I actually hate crying because none of my tears can offer resurrection none of my poems can offer resurrection none of my image…
Hakuna Matata, Shakespeare
Shakespeare may have felt anxiety, but he was no worrier. More from The Economist on how the word entered our lexicon, in a review of Worrying by Francis O’Gorman. O’Gorman,…
A Classroom of Atticus F., G., and H.
It has been a bad summer for the iconic characters of Southern literature. Over at the Paris Review, Sadie Stein takes a look at the unfortunate facts: Atticus was kind of…
The Super-Secret Identities of Clark Kent and Stan Lee
Such is the paradox of comics: they’re the medium of the marginalized, yet they remain wildly popular. Perhaps that’s because in some way, at some point, everyone will feel marginalized…
How to Be a Hell’s Angel
In this animated short, Hunter S. Thompson introduces us (and Studs Terkel, his interviewer) to the Oakland Hell’s Angels, who he spent a year with—and who showed him the hard…
In Defense of the Book-to-Movie Adaptation
Why do we keep going to movie adaptations of old classic novels we love? Over at Lit Hub, Sky Friedlander defends the book-to-movie adaptation as bringing new lessons to light…
Book Recs from a River-Rafting Joan Didion
To go with her contribution, Didion had to provide a few sentences about herself. Excavated from the Mademoiselle archives, what she wrote shows a still somewhat green, aspiring writer with…
The Alternate Careers and Future Projects of Alejandro Zambra
[Soccer] games on the radio are absolutely like literature—the metaphors, the pacing, the need for an evolving style. You can’t always say the same thing. The role of the play-by-play…