A Hologram For The King
At The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King, calling it a “comic but deeply affecting tale about one man’s travails that also provides…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Writing for the Ear
“Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important…
Brian Spears in Cobalt
Cobalt Issue #4: Summer 2012 features an interview with our own Brian Spears. Topics of conversation include his debut collection, A Witness in Exile, shifting roles in the writing world,…
Murakami Bingo
“Mysterious Woman. Ear Fetish. Dried Up Well. Speaking To Cats. Weird Sex…” Grant Snider brings an illustrated “Haruki Murakami Bingo” board to The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review.
Tumbeliever Party
The Believer and Tumblr are teaming up to present A Reading, Party, & Official Meetup in San Francisco. The event will star Mills Baker, our own Isaac Fitzgerald, Melissa Graeber,…
“Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One.”
At The New York Times, Rumpus columnist Steve Almond argues that liberals are treating “for-profit propaganda as news” to the detriment of our political system. Almond makes a strong case…
Inside Wendy MacNaughton’s Studio
In The Make is a collaborative online journal based on studio visits and conversations with West Coast artists and designers. This week’s visit is with artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy…
Finding Home
Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones will be writing monthly for Ebony. Don’t miss Jones’ Mother’s Day essay, and latest piece, “Traveling Man,” in which he sets out on a year-long journey.…
Thanks, MetaFilter
MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s Paying to Play: Interview with a John. We love you back!
Project Dad
Project Dad follows filmmaker Sharon Shattuck’s “quest to understand her LGBT family through a two-way dialogue with her dad,” who is transgender. The film, which is in the production phase,…
Car Talk Retirement
Tom and Ray, NPR’s Car Talk brothers, have announced that they’re retiring come October. The good news is there will continue to be a weekly program pulled from the archives.…
Frontal Cortex
This week The New Yorker launched a new science blog called Frontal Cortex, by Jonah Lehrer. (Did you catch our interview with him?) The inaugural post touts the virtues of…