Maiden Aunt Takes Up Expensive, Time-Consuming Hobby
“How did a woman from a small village in Hampshire come to write six of the most beloved novels in the English language?” Humanities seeks to answer that question with…
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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.
The Sexism That Makes Facebook Run
When Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings, a book about the sexist culture she encountered while working at Facebook during its early days, came out, Melissa Gira Grant paid attention. Grant had…
Legs That Just Won’t Quit
Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane has a piece up at Salon about the curse/blessing of being a stripper with thick legs. A preview: We’d done this before, dancing for a week in…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The Rumpus was packed like a tasty dumpling with features this weekend! Amy Fusellman has an essay about what she learned besides tightrope walking while taking a tightrope-walking class. Your…
The Wishing Tree
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings got her hands on a copy of William Faulkner’s only children’s book, written for his stepdaughter (and a few other children in his life) and…
Copy Editors Are Your Friends
Proper copy editing includes examining the focus, dredging the main point up from the tenth paragraph to make it more prominent. Proper copy editing addresses the language: rooting out cliches,…
The Dish Ran Away With the Andrew Sullivan Readers
Andrew Sullivan is lighting out on his own, hoping his blog The Dish will make enough money to stay afloat without the assistance of the Daily Beast or any other publication.…
On Being A “Vile, Loathsome, Despicable Pig”
Via Verge‘s best-of-2012 list, here’s an essay by Meghan Daum about the lakes of vitriol that make up so many online comments sections. She compares the unfavorable reaction to a somewhat…
What’s the Deal With Seinfeld’s Dedication to His Craft?
The ’90s were so saturated with Jerry Seinfeld’s brand of humor that it’s easy to think of him as hacky. He’s not.
Free Books Still Rad
Rumpus interviewee/contributor Scott Hutchins on the importance of libraries: “I’m from a town with no bookstore, so there would have been no option for books except for the library. The…
Goodreads Did Really Well in 2012
Goodreads has an end-of-the-year infographic that can only be described as nifty. Visually represented stats range from the book with the most popular quote of 2012 (The Fault in Our…
Writing in the Margins
Here’s a different kind of year-end book list: for the New York Times, Sam Anderson looks back at the notes he left in his reading material during 2012. Have you scribbled…