Tribute Deemed Fake Bomb
Artist Takeshi Miyakawa’s public art installation was meant to be a city-wide tribute to New York. Strangely, the project, which involved hanging illuminated plastic bags with the ‘I ♥ NY’…
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Weekend Features
A couple great Rumpus essays went up over the weekend. Saturday editor Michelle Dean brought us a history lesson, “The Unrequited Yeats.” And don’t miss Tara Ison’s “Flesh and Bones,”…
Notable San Francisco 5/21-5/27
This week in San Francisco! Monday 5/21: Lit Slam hosts Karrie Waarala, a “”a multifaceted, sword-swallowingly sharp writer not to be missed.” $5, 8pm Viracocha. Tuesday 5/22: Two time Man…
Notable New York, This Week 5/21-5/27
This week in NYC: MONDAY 5/21: Bookcourt hosts a reading by the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, with performances by Nick Dybek, Madeline McDonnell, Eric Sasson, and Julie Innis. 7pm, free.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Monday, let’s talk about ichthyosaurus’s breathing troubles. Midcentury Modern luggage labels! Flavorwire has your week’s worth of ruin porn with these abandoned rail stations from around the world. Way…
Saturday Links
A few links to get you started reading this Saturday morning. (I know it’s nice out, but I took my coffee out to my little backyard and am ignoring my…
Book Review Love
Jen Vafidis’ Rumpus review of Threats won “Best Anointing” over at Electric Literature’s May Critical Hit Awards.
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…
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…