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…
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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…
Notable New York, This Week 8/13-8/19
This (busy!) week in NYC: MONDAY 8/13: Melville House, WORD, and The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn team up to present a Words by the Water listening party with…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The mystery of the five-fingered phantom hand. As long as we’re talking about hands, a whole bunch of ancient severed hands were just discovered in Egypt! War sand (is not…
About David Rakoff
I did not know David Rakoff, never so much as met him, and I did not know that he was in these last few weeks quite as sick as he…
Francis Ford Coppola’s TWIXT
Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film TWIXT opens in San Francisco this Friday, August 10th. Written, directed and produced by Coppola, this film represents his new code of personal filmmaking ethics:…
BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER
Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released…