Columns
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“The Girls of Peculiar” by Catherine Pierce
There is a canon of cinema that revolves around girls leaving girlhood, and finding themselves young and nubile, ready (so they think) to embrace their future as women. There’s the girl who seduces her teacher, only to realize she should…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very impressive volcanoes. Breakfast around the world. This week in great bridges: the High Trestle Trail Bridge. Just the Czar having a good ol’ time. Actually pretty important: the future of Chinese cities.
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Week in Greed #17: Conservatives Storm the Week in Greed!
I felt it was important for Rumpus readers to hear what conservatives have to say for themselves. So I spent the past month interviewing a bunch.
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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, and Zubair Ahmed, author of the forthcoming City of Rivers. Friday, October…
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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 discusses the isolation and trauma of her youth and her…
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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 — will take the stage at Cobb’s Comedy Club for a…
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Sunday at the Angola Prison Rodeo
Driving onto Angola’s grounds in early October, hay bales dot flat green fields and quaint white barns rise in their midst. Fountains spew from the placid rectangles of designer catfish ponds. If we didn’t know we were entering a state…
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LET’S MAKE A MOVIE!
What do porn stars, punk rock self-help gurus, musical legends, comedy, literature, yo-yos, and the movie Argo have in common?
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Allan Gurganus on John Cheever
Over at The New York Review of Books, writer Allan Gurganus gives us a peek into his relationship with John Cheever while Gurganus was but a mere student in his twenties, and Cheever was The John Cheever, living in Iowa,…
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“Diving Belles,” by Lucy Wood
The very act of writing is a kind of magic. Small black etchings on paper conjure up worlds, people, events, transporting you, the reader, to a different place, a different time. Really, it’s one short leap from “spell” and “casting…
