Beauty as character
In an elegant and bracing piece for the New Yorker, recent Rumpus interviewee Adelle Waldman looks at the way men look at women. Beauty isn’t an ornament, either for the women…
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Lindsay Meisel
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Lindsay Meisel is the director of communications at Edupath, an educational technology company in Berkeley, California. She has picked spinach at sunrise on an organic farm, written about Nietzsche and environmentalism for the Breakthrough Institute, and saved things instead of selling them at Underground Advertising.
Youth in Revolt meets 1984
The San Francisco Public Library has chosen Cory Doctorow’s 2008 young adult novel “Little Brother” for its annual “One City One Book” award. After a terrorist attack on BART and…
Literary guts, literally
Harris Sockel writes with a defiant sense of wonder. He leaves behind arguments and agendas to marvel indiscriminately at iPhones, intestines, and human tenderness. In his world, technology has a…
Women, Water, Oil
Alyssa Monks paints women through the distorted lens of water, and her newest round of work puts them in the steamy cage of the shower, where their breasts and bellies…
Poems Out Loud
For National Poetry Month, Poems Out Loud is featuring people reading their favorite poems aloud. The construction worker who describes his job as “a lot of digging” loves Walt Whitman,…
Sex With Presidents
The artist Justine Lai depicts herself having sex with each US president, painting them in order. She’s gotten as far as Ulysses S. Grant. (NSFW)
How Books Got Their Titles
A blog about how famous books got their titles, peppered with amusing and surprisingly sexual anecdotes. John Cleland’s title Fanny Hill is dirty, but not for the reasons you might…
New York Times Word Frequency Visualizations
A Flickr set with visualizations of word frequency. The word “crisis” has surpassed “hope” on only a handful of occasions — one of them is right now. Trends also show…
The Evolution of Female Promiscuity
“Darwin was a prude” for failing to consider the possibility of female promiscuity, an omission that delayed the study of sperm competition for 100 years. But don’t blame him —…