Thanks, The Book Bench
The New Yorker’s Book Bench linked to our interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan. We love you back!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dear people, please stop eating bats. Eeee! Floating jellyfish robot! On the bureaucratic nightmare of Russian laundry. And now here are some stereoscopic Civil War pictures. Leave Saturn’s weirdest ring…
Iron Comic
Rumpus friends Kyle Kinane and Nato Green will be performing at the Punch Line Comedy Club in San Francisco next Tuesday, May 1st at 8pm. Get your tickets here!
“Imperfect Eulogy”
At ZYZZYVA, Shanthi Sekaran writes about her friend, Elmer Morrissey, one of four sailors who went missing in the boating accident off the Farralon Islands earlier this month. “I try…
National Poetry Month Day 25: “Letter To Be Wrapped Around a 12-Inch Disc” by Jake Adam York
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. Letter To Be Wrapped Around…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hurray for spillways! If I’m reading this correctly, the point is that whale’s ears are gross. 1980’s disco-blasting robot waiters (heart). Here’s some mid-century astronaut photography porn for you. Fitzgerald’s…
“The Lost Interview”
Here’s the first full English translation of the only known interview with César Vallejo. The conversation was conducted in a Madrid café, published by the Heraldo de Madrid newspaper in…
Post-Quake San Francisco
Here’s a famous photo of San Francisco taken after the 1906 earthquake. You can zoom in and explore the city. The picture was captured from a kite flying 2,000 feet…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Tuesday, here are some harvest mice. Monitoring crazy urban sprawl from space! The new hip thing is asteroid mining. Vintage headphone ads (I think we could all use a…
Trayvon Martin Roundup
The Sanford City commission has rejected police chief Bill Lee’s resignation. George Zimmerman was released on $150,000 bail as he awaits trial for second-degree murder. Jelani Cobb on what it…
Celebrate Poetry (Tonight!)
Knopf and Tumblr are presenting a celebration of poetry tonight at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC. The event will feature Poet Laureate Philip Levine and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy…
Notable San Francisco: 4/23-4/28
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 4/23: Poet and activist Alice Rogof reads at Dog Eared Books. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 4/24: Comedian Eric Barry is at LOL for LLS, a…