Columns
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The Rumpus Interview with Onur Tukel
Midway through June, I was sent a screener of Septien and asked if a piece on the film could find a home in ESPN the Magazine. Septien is an uneasy watch by design, and unfurls its tone out of the…
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“Why Don’t You Get a Job, Germ?”
Another Hunter S. Thompson correspondence has come to light. This time: a rejection letter. It is chock full off disdain and aggression that will no doubt make you curious about the original piece, which was sent to Rolling Stone in…
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Drones Revealed
The art exhibition “Gaming in Waziristan,” in progress at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery, includes previously unseen photographs of post-drone strike moments in North Waziristan, along with 3D animation and moving images. The project seeks to interrogate structures of power, the war…
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Architecture Fiction
Founded in 2010, in New Orleans, The Hypothetical Development Organization, creates fictional futures for vacant, abandoned buildings or “implausible futures for unpopular places.” To learn more about this visual urban storytelling and the idea of architecture fiction head over to this…
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How Well Do You Know Truman Capote?
Truman Capote’s social celebrity is a defining feature of his legacy—it added another element to his literary prowess and his visible lifestyle was definitely a point of contention for people. Many people had things to say about his lifestyle, and…
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Amity Bacon: The Last Book I Loved, The Hunger Games
This summer, I find myself reading young adult fiction on the bus as inconspicuously as possible, wrapping my arm around the cover in such a way that no one will know its title, and tilting the book just-so, so that…
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Reading For Money
Literary festivals are blowing up (at least in the UK), as evidenced by the new festivals that popped up this year alone, even though it’s increasingly difficult to get sponsors and funders in these times. To get the funds flowing…
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New School
Wired’s got an article on technologically-informed education—Khan Academy, an educational website in which, “Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Lioness Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Dyer’s “Reading Life”
If you haven’t heard by now, we are at the precipice of Geoff Dyer’s latest venture in the New York Times, a weekly column for the Book Review called, “Reading Life.” Thus we will all be in touch with his…