Goodbye to Goodreads
If you’re feeling a little queasy about Amazon’s buyout of Goodreads, Book Riot has compiled a list of alternative book-based social networks. A few of them seem defunct, and one…
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Lauren O'Neal
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Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
Nobody Tell Gollum About This
“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens.” It sounds like it comes from a…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Here’s what you may have missed on the Rumpus this weekend: A Yumi Sakugawa comic about an elephant god. An essay on parenting by Ben Tanzer. And yes, please note…
The Dark Heart of College Sports
Here is an actual thing said by an actual sports marketing executive to a group of commissioners trying to reform college sports: “You sold your souls, and you’re going to…
The Paperback Makeover
“Why are they still bothering with paperbacks?” This came from a coffee-shop acquaintance when he heard my book was soon to come out in paperback, nine months after its hardcover…
Ultrarunning, Ultrawriting
The relationship between writing and running has a long history, so perhaps it’s not surprising to see a cluster of longreads having to do with ultrarunning. One is this New York…
Drake’s East African Girl
Previously, we linked to a Feminist Wire post about being a black fan of a white musician who has said racist things. They have another great post up about race…
The Rumpus Interview with Karen Russell
From immortal citrus-suckers to a portentous flock of seagulls, the surreal phenomena in Karen Russell's stories break your heart but leave your suspension of disbelief completely intact.
Keep Happy Baby Happy with Food Donations
Are you a fan of the Rumpus living in New York? Do you work in, or have ties to, the food industry, or maybe just some extra cash you’d like…
From Superworms to Pythons
Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and other explorations of the weird, has a new book called Gulp, this one about eating and digesting food. You can…
“A New World of Silence and Control”
What does it sound like when someone who grew up without music becomes a musician? For British songstress Phildel, who was raised in an abusive home where she was forbidden…
About That Whole “Men Are Sex Fiends” Thing…
Well, this is interesting: “…for most of Western history, from ancient Greece to beginning of the nineteenth century, women were assumed to be the sex-crazed porn fiends of their day.”…