Heather Donahue Interview
Michelle Dean interviews actress-turned-pot grower Heather Donahue about her book, Growgirl. Donahue discusses “tit whiskers,” “pot-wives,” career changes, and more. “I understand that it’s a privilege to change a life.…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
The Bloggers
At The Bold Italic, Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton provides us with an illustrated guide to San Francisco’s favorite bloggers. Featured on her list is our own Isaac “Motherfucking” Fitzgerald, also…
E-book Recommendations
HTML Giant gives us the scoop on seven e-books “you won’t be sorry you downloaded.” First up is Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman’s Baghdad Country Club. (Did you see our excerpt?)
More Praise for Love and Shame and Love
The Jewish Daily Forward reviews November’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Peter Orner’s Love and Shame and Love. “Part epic, part bildungsroman, Peter Orner’s “Love and Shame and Love” is a…
Muni Diaries Live This Saturday!
At this Saturday’s Muni Diaries Live, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott will be telling his own Muni story. January 21st 7p.m. at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. More info and…
Zadie Smith on Minding the Gap
Zadie Smith discusses the gap between the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ world, as well as the need to bridge “the language of development and the language of the rest of us.”…
Arizona Bans Books
Arizona has found the Tuscon Unifed School District’s Mexican American studies program in violation of a ruling that prohibits courses and classes that ‘promote the overthrow of the United States…
Defense For Our Inner Child
“I want to defend the children that we still are inside, the fragile sensitive souls who no matter how much we tried were still told we were not good enough.…
That GOOD Lovin’
“Want something more in your mailbox than catalogs and bills? Longing for correspondence more inspiring than an endless stream of text messages and Facebook status updates?” GOOD gave Letters in…
Leigh Stein Interview
HTML Giant has been conducting a week-long interview with Leigh Stein, author of The Fallback Plan (one of the books featured in Roxane Gay’s piece this week). Today, Stein answered…
Language Map
If you’re looking for an interactive map to play with today, here’s a cool one. It breaks down where various languages are spoken around the country by the percentage of…
Judging Teachers
This new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has been getting major press attention. At The Awl, Maria Bustillos questions the merit of the study and its efforts…