Make-or-Break
Constance Hale’s New York Times series of writing lessons continues with wisdom on verbs. “Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. We often call…
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Words of Our Lives
“The main thing about something gruckimish is that gruck (the noun form) is always the unintended byproduct of the creator’s intention. Things that are supposed to be funny are rarely…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in the-answer-to-your-problems-are-slides: they help you get to class on time! Here are some 19th century visual puns (classy). Evidently the time has come for cyborg plants. Incidentally, maybe the…
Sunday Features
Did you swing by yesterday? If not, here’s what you may have missed: Judy Bolton-Fasman’s “A Jubana Mother Gives Advice to her Tragically Gringa Daughter” and Alison Espach’s “Things I…
“Miss Lora”
“It was 1985. You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced—like totally, utterly convinced—that the world was going to…
Notable San Francisco: 4/16-4/21
This Week in San Francisco.. Monday 4/16: San Francisco writers Jeanne Powell & Nancy Keane join Bird and Beckett’s Poets! series. Free, 7pm.The Lit Slam, “a live performance-curated poetry publication…
Notable New York, This Week 4/16-4/22
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series tackles betrayal; Archipelago Books hosts a launch party; Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Tom Bissell read at KGB Bar; John Reed, Rebecca…
The Sedaris Reading Diet
I’m pretty sure my favourite part about this interview with David Sedaris is the writer he’d most like to meet: “[I]f I could go back in time, I’d love to…
A Note About a Mundane Note from George Eliot
This week the Persephone Post has been putting up little scraps of signatures and letters from one of its staff member’s grandmothers-in-law. One of those scraps is a letter from…
A Celebration Of Written Correspondence
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Letters In The Mail: A Celebration of Written Correspondence” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Monday, June 4th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm. With…
John Ashbery: Greatest Poet Alive?
Poet and Rumpus contributor Matthew Zapruder contends that John Ashbery is “our greatest living poet.” In order to make his point—and spare us the work of tracking down all the…
“No, I’m the Narrator”
At The New York Times, author and Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg writes about the the disorientation and fear that came when, after a break-up, her ex-boyfriend started a site about…