Joke or Treat
Artist Jon Cotner celebrated Halloween by collecting jokes from his neighbors in Brooklyn. Check out his slideshow at The Hairpin.
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Sandy Roundup
Mother Jones is a good place for ongoing updates. Yesterday, their Climate Desk spoke with elderly NYC residents trapped without power. Our own Michelle Dean writes about “FEMA, Inequality and the Need…
All-Story and The Conversation
Zoetrope’s fiction quarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story is offering slices of cinematic history to lucky subscribers. Subscribe to the magazine before November 15th and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win…
West Coast Showdown: The Stranger vs. The Believer
“Watch as writers from The Believer and Seattle’s The Stranger go head-to-head with tales from their youth. Jesus! LSD! Virginity! No topic is off-limits.” Featuring The Believer’s Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, and Daniel Levin Becker…
826 Valencia Quarterly: “Turn the page. Start the ignition”
826 Valencia recently released its Quarterly 16. The volume sports excellent student writing introduced by our own Isaac Fitzgerald and peppered with illustrations by artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton. After…
Sandy Roundup
The New York Times tracks the storm and the daunting recovery effort. The Atlantic has a range of coverage on the hurricane, including political, economic, and historical perspectives. A list of resources…
“best of all, I remember it all”
At The Bold Italic, Bucky Sinister writes about living in San Francisco after getting sober, how he learned to do things without drinking, and his newfound ability to follow through on creative…
McSweeney’s Launches Poetry Series
McSweeney’s brand-new poetry series begins tomorrow evening in San Francisco. The inaugural reading will feature writers Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts (a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection), Rebecca Lindenberg, author of Love: An Index,…
Lana Wachowski Receives HRC Visibility Award
Lana Wachowski, director of The Matrix trilogy and the new film Cloud Atlas, received the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award in San Francisco this past weekend. Don’t miss Wachowski’s speech, in which she…
The (Big) Business
“San Francisco’s critically acclaimed independent stand up comedy show takes over Cobb’s – for one night only.” Comedy collective The Business — featuring Mike Drucker, Caitlin Gill, Sean Keane, Alex Koll, Bucky Sinister, and Chris Thayer —…
Nick Hornby in San Francisco Tomorrow!
Nick Hornby is on tour for More Baths Less Talking, the latest collection of his celebrated Believer column. Tomorrow he stops in San Francisco for a conversation with Judson True.…
The Escape Hatch
Molly Crabapple writes about her time as a “professional naked girl,” reflecting on the complicated relationship between beauty and power. “…I was doing my best to escape the trajectory of art…