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,…
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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…
Thanks, The Book Bench
The New Yorker’s Book Bench linked to our interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan. We love you back!
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…