Versal Ten
Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay’s short story “Who We Are Beneath the Glass” is featured in Versal’s 10th anniversary issue. The Versal Journal interviews her about creative firsts, angles, Amsterdam,…
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Cabinet of Wonders
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders blends performances by musicians, authors and comedians into an hour-long variety show recorded live at New York’s City Winery. The first two episodes are…
Notable San Francisco: 6/4-6/10
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 6/4: TONIGHT: The Rumpus Celebrates Written Correspondence. 6:30pm at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street. Join us! Tuesday 6/5: The SF Open Mic Poetry series…
Cat Lady Covets Kafka
Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, wanted his remaining and largely unpublished literary works to be burned after his death, but in a turn of Kafkaesque events the manuscripts trickled…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Space law you guys, space law. It is sometimes important to discuss reptiles’ chewing habits. Let’s take a look at the Olivetti buildings in Turin and Barcelona because they are…
A Saturday Rumpus List of Writers In Unsuitable Employment
This week brought another spate of bad job-creation news in the United States. This surprised, I think, precisely no one other than pundits, whose job it is to be professionally…
A Short Note on Critics and Criticism
David Carr and A.O. Scott have a short video up at the Times about the state of modern criticism. As the length would suggest, it’s a light discussion. The subject is…
OG Dad Love
Media Bistro linked to Jerry Stahl’s OG (Old Guy) Dad series, highlighting yesterday’s “raw and gritty” OG DAD #7: A Stahl Is Born. Thanks, Media Bistro. We love you back!
Roxane Gay’s Salon Column
The exciting news for Rumpus rockstars keeps coming: Our essays editor Roxane Gay will be a weekly columnist at Salon. Congrats! We can’t wait to read her first column. And…
Oprah’s Book Club Returns with Sugar’s Wild
Oprah is reviving her book club. Her first pick? Cheryl Strayed’s Wild! Hooray for Sugar! “I want to shout it from the Web. In fact, I love this book so…
Walt Turns 193
Walt Whitman’s birthday was yesterday. Happy belated! Melville House pieced together pictures of Whitman’s notebooks and some of his best “come-hither” glamour shots, all taken from Library of Congress’s massive…
Economists Set Phasers on Stun
Nobel prize winning economist and NYT‘s columnist, Paul Krugman expresses his love for sci-fi and fantasy in an interview for Wired magazine. Krugman cites Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation as his…