INHERITANCE IN THE AGE OF THE E-BOOK
“Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible,…
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FUNNY WOMEN #81: xo, The Intern’s Mom
Gary’s excited to start his week-long internship at Lanson Corp tomorrow! We can’t thank you enough for this opportunity—and for the doors it will open after college.
Day After Tomorrow
The Tomorrow Magazine team reached their funding goal within five hours of launching a Kickstarter yesterday. Congrats! Tomorrow is continuing to accept donations in order to pay contributors, fund design,…
Making Sense of the “Floating Cultural Stew”
Over at the L.A. Times, David Ulin argues that the art of the contemporary essay is “in a renaissance.” He praises the recent essay collections of Tom Bissell and Mark…
Believer Week
Subscriptions to The Believer are $5 off all week long in celebration of their upcoming 2012 music issue. The issue features a free cassette tape (and digital download) curated by…
“I WILL NOT MAKE ANY BORING ART”
If you ever wanted to hear the three things John Baldessari thinks every young artist should know, you ought to watch this six-minute film of his life story. And if that’s…
Alan Moore, Filmmaker
Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, among many other novels, has announced that he’s in the process of making a series of “occult, noir-flecked” short films called Show Pieces. They’ll premiere…
Endangered Languages
“Different languages highlight the varieties of human experience, revealing as mutable aspects of life that we tend to think of as settled and universal, such as our experience of time,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch this hilariously dated video of a woman walking her pet Leopard in London, because why not. Red light, Blue light? A look at the connection between color and language. Albert…
New Readers Report Theme:
The Gamble
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “The Gamble.” Please…
‘WRITE OR DIE’ AND OTHER SAGE WORDS OF ADVICE
The Guardian profiles a series of computer applications meant to motivate authors through the doldrums of writer’s block. ‘Write or Die’ (whose slightly menacing slogan is “putting the ‘Prod’ back…
László Krasznahorkai at City Lights
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai will be reading at City Lights in San Francisco this Thursday, June 28th. The reading comes soon after the long awaited English release of Krasznahorkai’s 1985 novel,…