Columns
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Looking for Sugar?
Everyone’s favorite advice columnist, Sugar, has taken this week off. But she’ll be back with answers to your questions next Thursday, August 5th. For now why don’t you read the DEAR SUGAR archives? Or send Sugar a question of your…
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The Rise of WikiLeaks
No matter where you come down on the veracity, morality or impact of WikiLeaks’ mountainous Afghan “war diary,” its release has been a fascinating event. It prompted me to reread Raffi Khatchadourian’s first-rate New Yorker profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian…
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The Monthly Rumpus Gets Some Love
Looking for the “Best Literary Event” in The Bay Area? According to the readers of The San Francisco Bay Guardian you need look no further than The Monthly Rumpus! Thanks SFBG readers, we love you back! Do you have your…
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What Does It Do for You?
“I said to someone the other day that nothing was ever real to me until I wrote it down.” Rumpus contributor and author of The Melting Season Jami Attenberg on what writing does for herself and others. What does your…
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Michael Kimball Talks to Gina Frangello
Over at the Faster Times Michael Kimball Interviews Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies. (Gina also recently said “’I’ve found The Rumpus a lot more compelling lately than the New York Times,” but we try not to bring that up…
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The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To
D. C. Pierson’s adolescent heroes hope for a future in which “‘existence engineer’ and ‘clone wrangler’ will be viable career paths.”
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Morning Coffee
Sad news, Elvis’ autopsy tools are no longer up for auction. Why yes, I would like to look at your giant Turkish yacht. This is what Madrid looks like. Public Collectors is your rad Tumblr of the day. There is…
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The Rumpus Review of Inception
Here’s a little news worth sharing: Christopher Nolan does not shit solid gold. Like most people, he shits shit. Inception, for example. Let me explain:
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The Death of the King of the Jungle
Jan Lenica’s political caricatures from the 1950 book Polska Karykatura Polityczna (Polish Political Caricature):
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10/40/70 #17: Aspen Extreme
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Aspen Extreme.
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More Moody
Rumpus contributor Craig Fehrman has published an in-depth profile of Rumpus contributor Rick Moody in the Hartford Advocate. In case you didn’t know, Moody’s new book, The Four Fingers of Death, comes out today; thus it is Rick Moody Day(!)…