Lit-Link Round-up
The highlight of your literary week? This “Six Question Sex Interview” with Junot Diaz, conducted by Six Question Sex Interview pioneer, Jessica Anya Blau. (P.S. Rumor has it I’m next…
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Keeping Moviegoers In Line
Gawker reports on a London movie theater’s new tactic to keep moviegoers well behaved. The Prince Charles theater offers free movies to those who agree to don a black leotard, covering their…
From Grief to Gift
Big Other interviews Rumpus contributor Alex Gallo-Brown about his poetry collection, The Language of Grief, and how it led to a community gift giving project. Using Kickstarter, Gallo-Brown offered readers the options of donating money or…
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Roaring Editors
The Academy of American Poets is featuring Terese Svoboda’s generous tribute to a relatively unknown 1920’s proletariat poet, Lola Ridge. Svoboda isn’t just knocked out by Ridge. She compares her…
The Branches, The Axe, The Missing by Charlotte Pence
Charlotte Pence, author of Weaves a Clear Night has created in The Branches, the Axe, the Missing a work of significant mythic force that explores intimate circumstances of a woman…
The Daily Beast Loves The Rumpus Book Club
And we love you back. While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets—Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s…
Swinging Modern Sounds #38: Dinner at Martha’s House
If you did not come of age as a listener to the popular song between 1975 and 1979, you cannot entirely understand the revolution that took place among women.
I Live in a Hut by S. E. Smith
J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield famously said that the mark of a great author is whether, after reading their work, you want to call them up to talk, want to gab…
FUNNY WOMEN #84: An Open Letter to Thomas the Tank Engine
Let me be blunt: you’re a train with human attributes. Who are your parents? From what monstrous act were you conceived?
Anti-Nanotechnology Terrorism
Nature investigates the rising number of terrorism attacks, and threats, against researchers in the field of nanotechnology. Those perpetrating the violence claim to be environmental activists, and believe that nanotechnology will…
Representing Africa Through iPhone Photography
Everyday Africa is a Tumblr that compiles pictures – altered via iPhone applications such as Instagram and Hipstamatic – of life in Africa. The project was started by a group of…
Google Maps
The Atlantic was lucky enough to take a behind the scenes tour of Google Maps headquarters. During this tour, the incredible amounts of information gathered and processed by the tech giant…