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…
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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…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Summer is (not technically) here! Enjoy National Parks from space! Just kidding, it’s spring! Let’s venture into the mole tunnels. Gothamist wants to share its favorite cats with you. Maybe it…
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…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Relive the obnoxiousness of yesterday with the Museum of Endangered Sounds. What does mean if Autistic people are less inclined to believe in God? “In Praise of Excellence.” Class divisions…
Representing Reality
The New Inquiry talks with Sheila Heti about her latest novel How Should a Person Be?, the impulse to record, memory, and how writing can alter “the experience of living.”…