Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Ring in the new year with these Rumpus interviews from the weekend! There’s an interview with writer/director Craig Zobel about his movie Compliance, a fictionalized version of real-life series of events in…
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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.
Snow Angels
Flavorwire has a collection of photos of authors frolicking in frozen weather. Neil Gaiman’s dog has a weird leash, while Hemingway looks just jaunty as hell.
Man Is Born Free And Everywhere He Is Being Pranked
You probably know Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the Enlightenment-era philosopher whose writings on the concept of the social contract helped ignite the French Revolution. What you may not know is that…
“The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death”
If this holiday season has filled you with a few too many warm fuzzy feelings, you can banish them instantly with this longform piece about freezing to death. Putting the…
War Paint and Purse Pistols
She floated above my desk with a grave, almost murderous look, war paint on her cheeks, blonde braids framing her face, the braids a frolicsome countertone to her intensity. The…
“The Audience Is Performing the Art”
“If this was a blog post I wouldn’t have read it; if this was a video I wouldn’t have watched the whole thing, but because this was a game I…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you’re pondering the Christ in Christmas this year, you’ll want to check out the pieces we posted this weekend. First, Donna Johnson interviews Erika Rae. Both are former Evangelicals…
The Internet As Scarlet Letter
Though the Internet these days isn’t the Wild West it once was, there’s still plenty of vigilante justice going on, from the outing and firing of the man responsible for…
Major Mayan Side-Eye
There are about 7 million Maya living in Mexico and parts of Central America, and they’re pretty done with all this apocalypse hoopla. A wonderfully sardonic Reuters report elaborates: “It’s…
Donnell Loves Fran
If Omar was ‘one of TV’s greatest characters’ it was because of Donnie. The show distinguished itself by laying out a palimpsest of failed American institutions but even within that decentralized…
Kid Lit Before It Was Kid Lit
A recent Slate Explainer details what children read before the advent of “children’s literature.” The answer: “Epic poems, religious literature, romances, and Aesop.” Looks like English kids had it better than…
Writers from Vermont to Oregon and Everywhere In Between
“There is a tendency to place the center of the writing universe in New York City. This is understandable—countless writers live there. Have you heard about this magical place called…