Lobbying for Loans
Desperate to save their businesses, the private companies who sell loans to college students have been heavily lobbying the government to keep subsidizing their loan programs. A bill that will…
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Maddie Oatman
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Maddie Oatman has interviewed musicians and writers for The Rumpus. She's the research editor at Mother Jones, where she also writes. A Boulder transplant, she can often be found on her bike, skis, or cooking with vegetables, and she wrote her English thesis on a gay red-winged monster and Billy the Kid. Follow her on Twitter or read occasional musings on her blog Oats.
Emptying the E-shelves: Amazon Removes Macmillan
Update: Amazon caves to Macmillan’s demands! Read on to learn more about the dispute: After Macmillan Publishers challenged Amazon‘s pricing of e-books for Kindle users, Amazon retaliated on Friday by…
Bloomsbury Whitewashes Again
Not long ago Bloomsbury published author Justine Larbalestier’s novel Liar, which revolves around an African-American protagonist, with a white girl’s face on the cover. The choice was made against Larbalestier’s wishes…
The Waitress on the Ukulele: A Short History of the Folk Opera
“To me folk music is about storytelling, and opera is about storytelling, so there’s no contradiction at all.”
Remembering Didion’s The White Album
Thirty years have passed since Joan Didion composed The White Album, her book of essays about the unsettling thrills and shadows of 1970’s LA, and by now the book’s title…
The Last Book We Loved: Part Two
The Rumpus presents the second installment of an index to “The Last Book I Loved” Series.
Ban Gay Marriage? Fine. But Ban Divorce Too
The decision by voters in several states to ban gay marriage has more than ruffled the feathers of many gay rights activists. In a country where half of all marriages…
When Eternity’s Too Gay
Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones who penned From Here to Eternity, revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast that her father was forced to remove gay sex scenes…
“A Man of Confused but Deep Spirituality”
On October 21st, Jack Kerouac had been dead exactly forty years. You’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of…
Booty Hunting for the Brainy
Bibliophiles of the world, take note: if you are not an inhabitant of the Twin Cities, you could be missing a chance to put your literary acumen to practical use.…
The Return of the Publisher
The author of a novel, who recommended it, how the cover is designed, and what awards it has won often sway readers into buying literature, but it’s not often that…
The Price of Non-Profit Press
Saying the word “journalism” these days is like openly inviting those around you to either deliver a lecture on the evils of technology, pontificate about the end of the written…