Tiny Beautiful Things, Best Seller!
Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s newly released collection of Dear Sugar columns, debuts at number five on The New York Times Paperback Advice Best Seller list! Hooray! To order the book…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
“What happens when velocity gives out”
“In the end, what makes ‘A Hologram for the King’ is the conviction with which Eggers plunges into the kind of regular working American we don’t see enough in contemporary…
Letters for Kids Love
Wired wrote about Letters for Kids, our newly-launched subscription service akin to Letters in the Mail — but for youngsters. We agree wholeheartedly with Wired’s endorsement: “If your child has…
Rumpus, Readings
Today’s essay by Saeed Jones, “How Men Fight For Their Lives,” is not only a must-read but also kicks of our new Rumpus, Readings feature. The brainchild of essays editor…
PASSWORD: A Literary Speakeasy
Litquake’s upcoming literary speakeasy promises “Prohibition-era cocktails, jazz, readings, and lots of feathers.” Bay Area writers, including Rumpus friends Robin Ekiss, Josh Mohr, and our own Isaac Fitzgerald, will channel…
Lucky Peach Signing Tonight
Listen up, Bay Area! Lucky Peach masterminds will be signing copies of the new issue tonight at Omnivore Books on Food (3885 Cesar Chavez Street). The event is free and…
Doctor Fraud
Back in a 2009, Zak Smith called out an unnamed celebrity doctor in his Rumpus essay on Sasha Grey. The physician in question, Drew Pinsky, is now under scrutiny “after…
Joke or Invitation?
In a thought-provoking Daily Beast essay about Daniel Tosh’s “rape joke” at the Laugh Factory, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist clarifies the distinction between using humor “to cope or…
Self Evident Truths
Bomblog interviews photographer iO Tillett Wright about her Self Evident Truths endeavor, which gathers individual portraits to document the LGBTQ spectrum across America. “When the message is finally understood that its…
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND: TEN YEARS OF PORCHLIGHT
Porchlight is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a two-day festival featuring “storytelling superstars from the last DECADE of Porchlight.” Those superstars include a number of Rumpus contributors, such as Bucky…
Frank Ocean Admiration
We don’t normally link to this sort of thing, but last night, Frank Ocean performed “Bad Religion,” his new song about unrequited love — for another man. On national television.…
“We all really want love, big time”
At Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory talks with Cheryl Strayed about finding beauty in ugliness, Sugar as her best self, and our universal troubles. “We all assume other people are feeling confident…