Super Sad True Habits
The second installment of “Super Sad True Habits of Highly Effective Writers” features a number of our friends, including contributor Chloe Caldwell, and Adam Levin, whose novel The Instructions was…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I, for one, am entirely excited about New Mexico’s new science ghost city. It looks like the Soviets had us beat there back when that was still a thing. Meanwhile,…
Letters to Each Other
People are beginning to get their Letters to Each Other, and they’re leaving comments on Karen Duffin’s essay, “A Letter to the People Who Wrote Letters to Each Other.” If…
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Reading (Tonight!)
Gideon Lewis-Kraus will read from his new book, A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful, a “dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire,…
Thank That Fungi!
Some undergrads from Yale recently found a fungi that eats plastic while on an expedition in the Amazon designed to introduce students to discovery-based research. This super fungi can survive…
Rumpus Roundup
Have you noticed? The site is brimming with excellent content. Highlights from the last two days: Thomas Page McBee’s “SELF-MADE MAN #9: Passing.” The Rumpus Review of The Love Song…
“You’re vs. Your”
In a lyrical crusade against grammatical ignorance, super-fast rapper David McCleary “Mac Lethal” Sheldon breaks down the difference between “your” and “you’re”. Video after the jump.
Coffee for Life
Here at Rumpus HQ, we take every caffeine-addiction-validating study to heart. So we’re pleased by this week’s research finding that “people who drank four or five cups of coffee a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in this-really-happened: John Waters picked up hitchhiking by Here We Go Magic. Let’s power the world with viruses! Telepathic robot arms are no longer just for monkeys. Globe…
Late Night Library
The second episode of Late Night Conversation features Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay. Listen in as Gay talks with guest host Karen Munro about emerging writers, publicizing her debut novel,…
SF Demographics
A few figures for some midweek perspective (from a New York Times article about the presence of coyotes in SF parks, and the possibility of coexistence): “In San Francisco, a…
Genre Resistance
“Let me say and I probably mean this in the most manifesto-ing way that genres don’t exist. They don’t exist at all. They serve the needs of marketing, of academic…