A PEEK INSIDE ZADIE SMITH’S NEW NOVEL
The Millions has excerpted the first lines of Zadie Smith’s forthcoming novel NW. Set in northwest London, this book is Smith’s first novel since the publication of On Beauty in…
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Palahniuk at the Castro Theatre
On July 16, Chuck Palahniuk will be at the Castro Theatre in conversation with Rumpus contributor Tom Barbash. Last month, Palahniuk released Invisible Monsters Remix, a “director’s cut” hardcover of a…
The DIY Sentry Gun Scene
Tech crunch hypothesizes that yes, contrary to what you may have believed previously, there is in fact money to be made in the DIY sentry gun scene. Rudolph Labs has…
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND: TEN YEARS OF PORCHLIGHT
Porchlight is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a two-day festival featuring “storytelling superstars from the last DECADE of Porchlight.” Those superstars include a number of Rumpus contributors, such as Bucky…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yesterday was Tesla Day, Atlas Obscura was there for you as always. Let’s all watch the Statue of Liberty get unboxed! Evidently stem-cell tourism is a thing but probably won’t…
What Really Happened? We Still Don’t Know
At The New Yorker, novelist and Pulitzer Prize jury member Michael Cunningham has written a two-part essay about why there was no Prize awarded for fiction this year for the first time…
Gender and the Job
“It’s hard to imagine a young woman’s stripper story serving as an allegory to critique capitalism: woman loses home in foreclosure so now she loses her bra.” At The New Inquiry,…
FUNNY WOMEN #83: Rejection Letter
Certainly you are aware that Haughty is the largest magazine in the world, so we must assume that your submission was a mistake.
Notable New York, This Week 7/9-7/15
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/9: This month at the Franklin Park reading series: Mark Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack), Eric Sasson (Margins of Tolerance), Rupinder Gill (On the Outside…
Come Hear Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life
You’re in San Francisco, no? And you like stories? Very brief ones? About Jewish life? Told live? Who doesn’t? Regardless of your answers to those questions, come to the SMITH…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Have to keep things simple today. Here is a luminescent map of all of the world’s earthquakes since 1898. Reconstructing dinosaurs vocal chords (because duh). Every day is a good…
“We all really want love, big time”
At Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory talks with Cheryl Strayed about finding beauty in ugliness, Sugar as her best self, and our universal troubles. “We all assume other people are feeling confident…