Endangered Languages
“Different languages highlight the varieties of human experience, revealing as mutable aspects of life that we tend to think of as settled and universal, such as our experience of time,…
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Walter Gordon
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Walter Gordon is an intern at The Rumpus. He is a native of Berkeley, CA and goes to
college in Oberlin, OH. He spends most of his time reading. His eyes hurt. Other hobbies include photography, writing fiction, and sitting on top of tall piles of rocks.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch this hilariously dated video of a woman walking her pet Leopard in London, because why not. Red light, Blue light? A look at the connection between color and language. Albert…
László Krasznahorkai at City Lights
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai will be reading at City Lights in San Francisco this Thursday, June 28th. The reading comes soon after the long awaited English release of Krasznahorkai’s 1985 novel,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“I am throwing up in my hat. I am throwing up in my hat.” Drunk texts from famous authors. In an attempt to learn more about how human babies learn…
Brain Activity
Glasgow-based artist and illustrator David Shrigley’s largest show to date, Brain Activity, opens tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Called “Kierkegaard, only with marker pens,” Shrigley’s work…
Lonely Art
“…Loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of…
Don’t “Do” Rome
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard writes about why we shouldn’t “do” cities. “To suggest that a city or site can be “done,” like dishes, the laundry, or homework, reduces said…
The Death (and Rebirth?) of the Book Review
Why review books? At The Awl, Jane Hu takes a historical approach to answering that question. Quoting writers from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Franzen, Hu argues that the apparently ever-progressing…
Clarice Lispector
“But what if there were no one around with whom to reach an agreement about the meaning of a word? What if the thing you’re trying to express can’t really…
Ben Lerner in The New Yorker
“In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction…
The Utopian Project
“In relation to the future, a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.” Charles Simic writes on Poetry and Utopia for the New…
Cattle Haul
The latest story featured by Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading comes from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage The Bones. The story, originally published in A Public Space,…