Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you haven’t already, take a little gander at our posts from this weekend! “How’s your day been?” and other things women have said to Calenture in Australian brothels. Like…
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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.
This Is Why the UK Always Seems So Much Smarter Than the US
The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.” We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF! The…
Glenn Beck, Novelist?
Mother Jones reports that Glenn Beck, to the dread/delight of snarky reviewers across the nation, will add another novel to his oeuvre, this one a dystopian sci-fi thriller called Agenda…
Belly Ripley and the Weirdest Parole Terms Ever
We’ve all been there. You go to Harvard, then to law school in Colorado. You own property in central Texas. You get caught trafficking drugs, and the court makes you…
A Strange Object Is Born
Callie Collins and Jill Meyers, formerly of American Short Fiction, are starting a new project together: “A Strange Object is an independent press based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to publishing…
Queens Library Undaunted by Hurricane Sandy
What do you do when a devastating hurricane prevents your community from going to the library? You bring the library to the people with “a mobile book bus” and “a…
Behind the Scenes of the Silver Screen
Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood column is consistently one of the best features at The Hairpin, even for those among us who have never heard of any of…
The Blue Velvet Project Goes to Argentina
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes’s The Blue Velvet Project analyzes in marvelous depth 152 still frames from David Lynch’s classic arthouse film. The series, which originally appeared at Filmmaker magazine’s site,…
The Sensible Nonsense Project
What was your favorite book as a child? The Phantom Tollbooth? Little House on the Prairie? Something by Roald Dahl that was kind of grotesque and frightening but also a…
When the Wall Between Church and State Fell
The Daily Beast has a fascinating post about a mostly forgotten moment in American history: the time General Ulysses S. Grant “wrote out an order banishing all Jews throughout his…
Veterans Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you spent the weekend honoring the veterans in your life or otherwise celebrating Veterans Day, you may have missed these excellent Rumpus pieces. Don’t worry, it’s not too late…
“This Is Not About Quality Control”
The publishing industry is battling the Internet again. Or publishing stepped on the Internet’s foot and refuses to apologize. Or Maria Popova wanted to use more than three pictures in…