The Rumpus Interview with Craig Taylor
I’ve often thought writing takes equal parts alienation and ego, one to see things and the other to think your vision warrants recording. But, after reading Craig Taylor’s Londoners, I…
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Adrienne Rich, 1929 – 2012
Adrienne Rich, one of the preeminent poets of the 20th and early 21st centuries, has died at the age of 82, according to the LA Times. I don’t really have…
The Curated Twitterverse
Choire Sicha writes about reading Twitter as a text, and the strange access it gives us to the once private “sexy back rooms” of “high-end” cultural institutions. “Biesenbach has made…
Previously Unpublished
The forthcoming paperback edition of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King contains four previously unpublished scenes. The Millions shares the full text of one of those additional scenes.
Love for “Ghosts Are Real, At Least in Publishing”
Sari Botton’s excellent piece on ghostwriting has resonated throughout the Internet, with coverage from both The Atlantic and Andrew Sullivan. We love you back!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good morning, I have bad news for you. There are no more dinosaurs in New York City. This is an article about fish farts. Yep. On the origins of cows.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is important, in times of worry, to look back on debunked end of the world fears. Ants are gross! New Scientist has your human evolutiona puzzles round-up. “Death and…
New Readers Report Theme: Friends with Benefits
Submissions Due Today
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Friends with Benefits.”…
Notes from Jeanette Winterson’s Reading at McNally Jackson
Jeanette Winterson has the best-named memoir: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She spoke about the story behind the title during her reading at McNally Jackson bookstore in NYC:…
Magazine Review #11: AWP Lit Mag Round-Up
The book fair was the highlight of AWP Chicago for me. Sure, there was the misguided, and somewhat enraging debate over John D’Agata’s The Lifespan of a Fact, or the…
Notable San Francisco: 3/26-4/1
This week in San Francisco Monday 3/26: SF’s only lending library, Ourshelves, opens its doors for the third public reading series tonight at 8pm. Free.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In the future you will have your own medicinal mouse. The future will be weird. I think we can all agree that whats missing from modern music are badgers. Here’s…