Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in crazy-ass things: Zombie-Ant Fungus has it’s own Killer Fungus. This is what the super moon looked like from outer space (spoiler: it’s not as impressive). THIS ARTICLE…
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Nato Green Live Recording
Rumpus friend and comedian Nato Green will record a live album at The New Parish on Tuesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. East Bay Express profiles Green,…
Notable San Francisco 5/7-5/13
This week in San Francisco Monday 5/7: Submission-based reading series Quiet Lightning is at Alley Cat Books tonight, featuring a dozen Bay Area writers, readers, poets and performers. $3 draft…
Notable New York, This Week 5/7-5/13
This week in NYC: MONDAY 5/7: Internet friends and fiction writers Mark Doten, Justin Taylor, and Gregory Howard read together IRL at Word bookstore. 7 pm, free. TUESDAY 5/8: Katie…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yes, I would like to see some 1920s Japanese illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen tales. Why are you trying to wake up sleeping chicken babies all the time scientists? Stopping…
“Novelistic Intelligence” and the Obama Biography
The best thing I read this week was James Wood’s review of Hilary Mantel’s new novel, Bring Up the Bodies, a sequel to her last novel, Wolf Hall. Caveat emptor:…
Literary Roommates
I was sniffing around a rumor I’d heard about Saul Bellow and happened to come across this wonderful piece Bellow wrote about the time he and Ralph Ellison were roommates…
“Pachyderm”
Don’t miss this poem from Sherman Alexie’s forthcoming collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories. “Until he became an elephant, Sheldon referred to his left hand as ‘my hand’ and to…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Newsflash: dinosaur era fleas were very big. Meanwhile, elsewhere in dinosaur news, there was a press release about alien dinosaurs the other day. Margaret De Patta’s jewelry (is great). Science…
Literary Feng-shui
Check out this slideshow of 15 writer’s bedrooms. Enjoy simple minimalism? Look no further than Capote’s warmly lit abode. What about torturously uncomfortable wooden chairs? Hemingway had them in spades.…
More on CeCe McDonald
CeCe in her own words. Yesterday, McDonald pled guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter in the second degree. Supporters can write to CeCe while she’s in jail, and those…
Real Talk from Your Editor
Check out this amazing Tumblr. The Rumpus editorial board is particularly fond of this one: When all of the important national mag awards go to white dudes. (Via Xtina Richards)