Everything is Fiction
“When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The three parent babies are coming! Maybe sending someone a scented postcard of your food is a thing you’d like to do. Maybe you’ve wondered what it would be like…
Drawing On the Truth
“It’s a tricky business, legitimacy. Often, as we dole it out, our decisions are informed by invisible forces that are anything but objective. Who sets the standards? What happens when…
What We’re Missing
If you’ve ever wondered about a particular brand of wit in France or what it means to be perpetually unlucky in Yiddish, Mental Floss has a list of eleven wonderful idioms…
Fiction Blurred in Oakland
The LA Times reports that a Bay Area bookstore will be transformed into a pop-up record shop this coming September, in connection with the release of East Bay author Michael…
Not So Progressive
If you’ve never had to deal with the inadequacies of an insurance company, consider yourself lucky. Gawker reports on a terrible instance of auto insurance failure, in which Progressive not only…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week’s nominee for most bad-ass dude is Wave Vidmar. Maybe you need some Japanese dream imagery illustration? Marsquakes! The world is still full of new things, some of them…
In The Not-So-Penal Colony
Today at The Morning News, Alexander Chee waxes poetic about artist colonies. Touching on MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Civitella Ranieri, Chee explores the mystery behind the…
Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus?
No? Why not? We’d like to know the last book you loved and why. Send us a writeup of the last book you truly loved — a little bit book…
Notable San Francisco 8/13-8/19
This week in San Francisco Monday 8/13: The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a rare night with renowned UK-based translator Margaret Jull Costa, whose translations comprise works by…
Weekend Essay Round-Up
This weekend’s Rumpus was a little quieter than usual, but by no means silent. If you missed them, here are three essays to get your week going: Michelle Dean pays…