A Saturday Rumpus Index For the Conspicuously Old
I spent my 20s dilly-dallying, not-publishing, so sure of rejection by MFA programs that I never applied. So I am always happy to find new examples of people who did not…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Adrienne Rich: “Every Mind Resides In A Body”
One of the more curious themes of the coverage of Adrienne Rich’s death this week is that people seem to want to rescue her from her political beliefs. David Orr’s…
Nick Flynn on Adaptation
Guernica has an extensive interview with Nick Flynn, who reflects on the process of translating Another Bullshit Night in Suck City into film, fathers, and the final book in his…
A WILD Night
If you missed Monday’s WILD Night with Sugar and The Rumpus, check out Electric Literature’s write-up and photos of the festivities. “As the band Widowspeak began playing and the reading…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are. The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes. Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs. I guess…
“The Faces of Black Men”
“Somewhere between the inaccurate and distorted media images of the black male super predator and the black male superhero, live the majority of black men.” The Maynard Institute for Journalism…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.) Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross! Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp…
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…
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Previously Unpublished
The forthcoming paperback edition of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King contains four previously unpublished scenes.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!