Full Stop Goes to AWP
“So here it is: the trade secrets, the panels and moments we kept bringing back up over meals — really, everything that inspired us to discuss hotel arrangements for the…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
“The courts were our family’s livelihood…”
“Yet for Wallace, tennis entails intense aloneness, standing seventy-eight feet away from one’s opponent, warring within and against one’s own brain. Tennis represents an entirely individual struggle to wrest control…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh no! It’s the chimpanzee police! When I am rich, I too will have a shark-filled atrium. The Japan Animals’ School. Who is @MCBangarang?
Getting the House Back In Order
Dear Rumpus Readers, We recently switched server hosts, which is great news. Unfortunately, we lost some content along the way. But fear not! We have all the missing articles and…
On Berdych
Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel’s story “A Note on Type” tells the jealousy and revenge filled saga of the Berdych typeface. “Heyduk designed the typeface to cause strain in the eyes…
Barbara Jean Narrated
Listen to narrator Xe Sands read Rebecca K. O’Connor’s excellent Rumpus essay (and book-in-progress) “What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean.”
FUNNY WOMEN #75: Behind Every Great Man
To the left is a copy of Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule, as found in a book. Below is what I imagine Mrs. Franklin’s daily schedule looked like.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m going to be away from the internet for a couple days, I’ll miss you all dearly. Let’s all celebrate 10 years of awesome Envisat images! 19th century gloves as…
HuffPost Letter Love
The Huffington Post interviews Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott about Letters in the Mail. “With a letter, you walk away from everything. You open it and read it. It’s just you…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s science! People are too dumb for democracy. The world is running out of whimsical ideas. Guerrilla street furniture. The future is self-cleaning. Here’s your Soviet monument/ruin porn for the…
In the Aura
In his essay Accidental Pugilism, Richard Farrell details the “both terrifying and inexplicably peaceful” experience of an epileptic aura, the phenomena that precedes a seizure. “The heart does rebel against…
In Defense of the Cheap Seats
It works like this. You tell the kid at the ticket counter you want to see J. Edgar at 7:30. He asks if you’d like regular or VIP seating.