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.…
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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…
Lit-Link Round-up
This week concluded the excellent Story Week Festival, held by Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction Writing Department, where I’ve taught for something like 13 years. If you ever come to Chicago at…
Reading Where You Do Not Belong
Somehow I’d never heard of Sylvia Townsend Warner until the New Yorker posted its fiction podcast this week, which is Colm Toìbìn reading one of Warner’s stories. In my life,…
Saturday History Lessons: That Time Wallace Stevens Punched Hemingway
Truth be told I don’t like macho posturing in literary feuds — or rather, the only thing I like about it is the opportunity it provides me to practice the…
On Ann Patchett on the Sexual Revolution
So look, Ann Patchett’s writing is great and the Sexual Revolution is great and I think everyone should be in favour of birth control because really, why not? But I’m…
I Hereby Volunteer To Write Ryan Gosling’s First Novel
I’m going to break the Rumpus rule against pop culture here for a minute. (Hell, it’s Saturday.) It’s only to note Gwyneth Paltrow’s complaint, this week, that the New York…