Lit-Link Round-up
A fascinating documentary film, Sole Survivor, exploring the fates of sole survivors of commercial airline crashes has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Congrats! Philip Roth to cooperate on a biography of…
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Beards Can Double As A Form Of Sunscreen
Today’s edition of Scicurious’ Friday Weird Science covers a study that proves beards provide considerable coverage from UV rays. While the level of protection varies based on several beard factors…
The Next Letter In The Mail: Emily Gould
The next Letter In The Mail, going out early next week, is from Emily Gould.
Letters From Robots by Diana Salier
I am not impressed with writers who refuse to use punctuation or capitalization; that gimmick has been famously used already, so now it comes across as lazy and unoriginal. Also,…
Proposed Internet Censorship In The UK
Cory Doctorow explains a law currently proposed in the UK that would automatically censor internet user’s browsers. This automatic censoring is proposed by several Members of Parliament, the Daily Mail, and…
Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson
The cover of Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts, in print and as eBook, is as visually compelling as the cover of Rebecca Lindenberg’s Love, An Index, the first poetry selection in…
The Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan
As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics. With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be…
David S. Atkinson: A Rumpus Book Club Member Reviews We Only Know So Much
Elizabeth Crane’s We Only Know So Much focuses on the lives of a bunch of messed up people. Really messed up people, in fact. Okay, there’s a great deal more…
Lit-Link Round-up
Excellent, albeit depressing as hell, HuffPo piece about the corruption in politics. Uh…happy reading? Ilie Ruby, author of The Salt God’s Daughter, will be interviewed soon on The Sunday Rumpus.…
Uselysses by Noel Black
Uselysses by Noel Black is a collection of five, distinct, short books of poetry. The first three books collect introspective and self-conscious poems common in contemporary poetry, distinguishing themselves with…
The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion
There are things that rip my skin open and reveal what lies beneath but I don’t believe in trigger warnings.
A Rumpus Book Club Update
Rumpus Book Club members this month have been devouring Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and we’ll be chatting with Straub about her book this Wednesday night. Poetry Book…