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…
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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…
More on Franzen and the Web
At Salon, David Daley argues that “Jonathan Franzen and the Web will never get along.” Daly points us to an anecdote in Franzen’s “On Autobiographical Fiction” in contending that both the…
FUNNY WOMEN #76: A Person with Severe Social Anxiety Imagines What Will Happen If Seen Tripping on a Sidewalk
You! Rebecca Victoria O’Neal! I’ve just seen you trip on the sidewalk, confirming a long-held suspicion that you are a Bad Person with Whom I’d Never Hang Out.
Segura Returns to PW!
Former Publishers Weekly deputy reviews editor Jonny Segura will return to the magazine in the new position of senior editor, digital media. On April 16th, Segura will take over responsibility…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in um…: you see homeless people I see 4g wireless opportunity. Zhang Kechun’s pictures of the Yellow River are pretty dang incredible. Within five years there will be…
Notable San Francisco: 3/12-3/18
This week in San Francisco…. Monday 3/12: Tonight! The last (for now) monthly Rumpus at the Make Out Room. You can’t afford not to go.