“Perimeter-less Perimeters”
Believer co-founder and co-editor Heidi Julavitz writes about how online journals (such as The Rumpus!) caused the Believer to rethink some of its original tenets, including a strong resistance to…
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May Day Update
I grew up in the Deep South in the 70’s and 80’s, where unions were limited in number and power by Orwellian-named “right-to-work” laws, so I thought May Day involved…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Not so fast you guys, asteroid mining might be illegal. The future is dog poop for wi-fi. Norway has just found a whole new kind of life. Way to go…
Mapped Transitions
BOMBLOG interviews Terrance Nance about his debut feature film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, mapping life’s transitional moments, and becoming filter-less. “I’m not going to call what I attempted an…
Notable San Francisco
This week in San Francisco: Monday 4/30: Martin Scorsese’s biopic George Harrison: Living in the Material World screens (for cheap) at the Roxie Theater. 7:30pm $10. Tuesday 5/1: Ironic Comic…
Notable New York, This Week 4/30-5/6
The PEN World Voices Festival has hotels on every square of this Monopoly board, so see their schedule for a listing of events with luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy Monday, let’s all plan a trip to a Japanese cat cafe. Why are we waterproof? Ruined Polaroids are a cool thing. Fact: the Danish are a million times better…
National Poetry Month Day 29: “A Children’s Story” by Mary Biddinger
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. A Children’s Story One snowflake…
Saturday I-Have-to-Bail-But-Here-Are-Fun-Old-Things-To-Read Link Roundup
Today I am posting regretfully little because I am on deadline. The deadline is not my own; it’s someone else’s. I’ve been helping with a book for a while. Some…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important update: there are a lot of stars. Hey, how did Technicolor work? If you are bad at math than you probably believe in things (or something, I guess,…
“The Never-to-Be Bride”
Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist rocks the New York Times Modern Love column. “That online conversation was our last. Once he signed off, he was gone for good. At…
Roxane Gay Interview
Paper Darts converses with our own essays editor Roxane Gay. Topics of discussion include Edith Wharton, writing about small-town America, literary erotica, teaching, and crossing lines. “Life is pretty cruel…