New Tin House Podcast
From our Pacific Northwesterly neighbors, a new Tin House podcast featuring Steve Almond for your enjoyment. Steve Almond provides a lecture from last summer’s Writer’s Workshop, “Everything They Told You…
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Sam Riley is an adult who works at McSweeney's.
Chicago: Paul Madonna is in Town Tonight!
Calling all those who live in/near Chicago! Comics editor, Paul Madonna is in town talking about and signing his new book, Everything is its own Reward. The book is chock-full…
July’s Rumpus Book Club Selection
Next month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Bouchet’s debut novel, published by Melville House Publishing. The…
The History of Media in New Forms
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone is discussing the media in new forms without losing the intimacy that the radio provides listeners. Her book, The Influencing Machine traces the history of…
Cloud Rolling In
The sum of utopian tech dreams and music sharing could just be the cloud, “the poetic name for online storage and software that promises to make lifetimes worth of songs…
Age-Revealing Spit
It turns out those trusty Law and Order-like forensic techniques are now being adopted for another function–the preservation of social norms via the avoidance of seemingly invasive questions! Next time…
Dear Sugar Coming Soon!
For those of you who are feeling the lack of sweet counseling normally provided on Thursdays afternoons, please hold off one more day! Dear Sugar #77 will be coming your…
Franzen’s Comin’ Over
When you’re playing host for your literary idol, there is a lot of opportunity for panic and embarrassment. Wendy MacLeod recounts Jonathan Franzen’s visit to Kenyon, recalling her anticipatory anxieties,…
New Site For Nonfiction Lovers
There’s a new literary website, claiming that enviable title “the Pandora of narrative nonfiction.” Byliner.com compiles writer profile pages, full of long-form stories gathered from all corners of the web,…
Hell’s New Autobiography
Writer and punk rock legend, Richard Hell, wrote a forthcoming autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. For those of you curious as to what astrological sign is…
Love for Feministing
Feministing, the esteemed online feminist community, highlighted our very own Elissa Bassist’s interview with sex-positive feminist Susie Bright (which is still very smart and very funny, if you haven’t dabbled…