Breaking News: Poets don’t do it for the money
Charles Simic, a poet himself, tries to explain the method behind the madness for the frustrated folks who just don’t get the place of poets in a capitalist society: “To…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The winner of this year’s New Scientist Eureka photography prize is everyone. Today’s bad ass of the week: astronaut/antarctic doctor Scott Parazynski. Oh hey look, it’s all the mars landings…
“Neighbor Boy”
Rumpus contributor Conner Habib continues his Guys I Wanted To Fuck in High School series — which chronicles his frustrated coming of age in small-town Pennsylvania — with a new entry…
Faces of Addiction Revisited
Back in March, we published a post on Chris Arnade’s “Faces of Addiction” project, which explores the stories of addicts living in New York City through a combination of photography…
An Interview With Austin Kleon
Rumpus contributor Andrew David King interviews Austin Kleon at The Kenyon Review’s blog. Kleon has a knack for altering a text to make it his own, and talks at length about creative originality: “I…
Open Access to Research is not the same as Napster for Music
There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open…
Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets…
Notable San Francisco: 8/27-9/2
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 8/27: UK-based performance duo Action Hero explores Americana with Stranger in a Strange Land, a piece inspired by the landscapes of this country seen…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It wasn’t a very essay-heavy weekend here at The Rumpus, but we still published all kinds of good stuff. Check it out: Amy Cheney, who has worked as a librarian…
Notable New York, This Week 8/27-9/2
This week in NYC: MONDAY 8/27: Words by the Water this week showcases Electric Literature, with readings by Katie Bellas, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Fiona Maazel. East River State Park, 7pm,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is of course the best possible time to see what E.B. White wrote about the moon landing. Also, here are some space pictures. Underwater secrets are cool too! Oh,…
This is a Link-Heavy Saturday
I had a terribly busy week. One of the things keeping me busy, I’d like to mention, is the excitement over the release of D.T. Max’s Every Love Story Is A…