Weekend Features
A couple great Rumpus essays went up over the weekend. Saturday editor Michelle Dean brought us a history lesson, “The Unrequited Yeats.” And don’t miss Tara Ison’s “Flesh and Bones,”…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Book Review Love
Jen Vafidis’ Rumpus review of Threats won “Best Anointing” over at Electric Literature’s May Critical Hit Awards.
Super Sad True Habits
The second installment of “Super Sad True Habits of Highly Effective Writers” features a number of our friends, including contributor Chloe Caldwell, and Adam Levin, whose novel The Instructions was…
Thin Opposition
“…Prejudice is a kind of cartel that works best when there is no real dissent. Once one person breaks away, others who may have had doubts find it easy to…
Letters to Each Other
People are beginning to get their Letters to Each Other, and they’re leaving comments on Karen Duffin’s essay, “A Letter to the People Who Wrote Letters to Each Other.” If…
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Reading (Tonight!)
Gideon Lewis-Kraus will read from his new book, A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful, a “dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire,…
Voices from the Arab Spring
Now That We Have Tasted Hope archives the “most important” primary source documents of the Arab Spring. Published by McSweeney’s and Byliner, and edited by Rumpus contributor Daniel Gumbiner, the…
“You’re vs. Your”
In a lyrical crusade against grammatical ignorance, super-fast rapper David McCleary “Mac Lethal” Sheldon breaks down the difference between “your” and “you’re”. Video after the jump.
Coffee for Life
Here at Rumpus HQ, we take every caffeine-addiction-validating study to heart. So we’re pleased by this week’s research finding that “people who drank four or five cups of coffee a…
Late Night Library
The second episode of Late Night Conversation features Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay. Listen in as Gay talks with guest host Karen Munro about emerging writers, publicizing her debut novel,…
SF Demographics
A few figures for some midweek perspective (from a New York Times article about the presence of coyotes in SF parks, and the possibility of coexistence): “In San Francisco, a…
Genre Resistance
“Let me say and I probably mean this in the most manifesto-ing way that genres don’t exist. They don’t exist at all. They serve the needs of marketing, of academic…