Going Back to Bed
“Someday they’ll say Bukowski knew. Lay down for three of four days to get your juices back—then get up, look around and do it… But who the hell can do…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Transitions
At The Boston Phoenix, Rumpus contributor Thomas Page McBee writes about undergoing his own transition while making sense of the many public stories of transgender people that also occurred throughout…
Stories and Tools
At The New York Times, David Carr takes a closer look at the blend of business, journalism and software that characterizes Brooklyn-based multimedia storytelling platform-cum-publisher, The Atavist. “Part of the…
Recommended Reading Launch
Recommended Reading, Electric Literature’s free digital magazine, has been released! The inaugural story comes from Ben Marcus. “If my mother knew that she only needed to survive for just under…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I can’t believe it took me so long to check for Big Picture’s eclipse photos. This has been a weird week for things on auction. exhibit b: Reagan’s blood. Holy…
“CeCe Is Being Punished for Not Being Killed”
“Recent research and reports on violence against transgender women have found that, in 2010, 44 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-affected hate-crime murder victims were trans women. In…
On Gender Bias and Identity Lit
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard weighs in on the literary gender imbalance, arguing that today’s literary marketplace is “identity-driven,” which makes it more difficult for women writers to succeed. “Our…
Adam Levin Interview
KCRW talks with Adam Levin about his latest collection of short stories, Hot Pink, behaviorism, the Marx brothers, strange sentences, and his affinity for big drama without sappiness. (Via Electric…
FUNNY WOMEN #78: Ambivalent Affirmations
Hey ladyfriend, are you going through a breakup? Is your job really hard right now? Is your life nothing more than all-consuming darkness and regret?
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Steinbeck’s love advice. Dinosaur controversy! Dinosaur dance! Dinosaur controversy updated! Mapping out Phineas Gage’s brain.
Seven Gables Illustrated
Rumpus artist Jason Novak continues his Paris Review literary panoramas with a new, ten-foot-tall panel illustration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.
Emily St. John Mandel Interview
Episode 70 of Brad Listi’s Other People podcast features Emily St. John Mandel. Mandel discusses the genesis of her new novel, The Lola Quartet (which was our April Rumpus Book…