Elizabeth Taylor Nerd Patrol
I am a book nerd but I tend to read old books more often than new ones. Sometimes that means I miss out on the new hot thing but more…
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“The Literary Establishment”
The post I’d planned first for you this Rumpus Saturday keeps growing and growing and growing, like Violet Beauregarde in the Wonka factory. I need to hack at it a…
Beat Generation Brought to the Stage
Beat Generation, Kerouac’s only known full-length play, will premiere this year in eight performances as part of October’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. The play was written in…
This American Life Retraction
This American Life has retracted its story “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” Ira Glass says that airing the episode was a mistake, asserting that Mike Daisey–whose one-act play was…
Reading with Urgency
Books and depression fill Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s essay “Blue Like You” over at This Recording. “The treatment was very gentle and it was very nice and it helped me go…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the world, NYC frog. Behold! The entire infrared universe! Book readers of the future (of the 30s). On the magnetism of starling flocks. Using slime molds to chart…
Out of Print
Over two centuries after the first publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica is dropping its print edition to focus on a digital version. If you’re in need of some closure, check out Rumpus…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your bad ass fossil for the week. Frankly Belgium has had enough of you kids free-loading at storytime. The world of early man grows more diverse every year. Let’s…
CHERRY BOMB: Call for Submissions
The upcoming feature film FARAH GOES BANG is launching CHERRY BOMB [editor’s note: no affiliation to Stephen Elliott’s film Cherry], a new blog from Rumpus contributors Laura Goode and Neelanjana Banerjee.…
Geoff Dyer & David Thomson Convo (Tonight!)
Litquake and The Believer are presenting a conversation between novelist, essayist, and New York Times Book Review columnist Geoff Dyer and film critic David Thomson. Tonight, 7p.m. at North Beach’s…
Untamed Twitter
“On Twitter, playland of masqueraders, we are what we choose to divulge. Or to conceal. It’s nice to have some choice left, about something.” Margaret Atwood writes about her adventures…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fare thee well, Encyclopedia Britannica. Perhaps you’d like to buy a town. Let us now discuss nomad planets. Russian stone age cartoons. It’s exciting to keep up with the highline…