Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy President’s Day you guys. We’re going to keep things low key and see y’all tomorrow.
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Science Saturday
The Crab Nebula may be acting as a fast particle accelerator. If you’re going to take a picture of a black hole, you apparently need a telescope the size of…
Yeah, that’s pretty bad
It might not be the worst poem in the universe, as was recently claimed on Wikipedia, but Gina Rinehart’s paean to mining is pretty bad. I’ll copy a couple of…
Saturday Morning Links
Hard to believe, but in a week and a half, The Rumpus will be in Chicago for the AWP convention, and we’ll reading to raise money for 826 Chicago on…
Porchlight: Young Love, Monday!
Porchlight is hosting an event at the Verdi Club on Monday, February 20th at 8p.m. The storytelling theme of the evening is “Young Love,” and our own managing editor Isaac…
R.I.P. Anthony Shadid
Yesterday, Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. His memoir, House of Stone, is to be released in…
The Untidy World
“In truth, memory’s great betrayal, that it will not lie intact in wait for us, is lament enough to revisit in every generation. This is what I go to nonfiction…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your weekends worth of circus sideshow banners. You know who was really inconvenienced by Japan’s earthquake last year? Underwater creatures. It turns out pollution is really bad for your…
Hailing in Flatbush
2 p.m. Saturday. Cars, taxis, buses, and dollar vans swarm. Ubiquitous on Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, dollar vans distinguish themselves from the frenzy of Brooklyn traffic with a fare-seeking catcall: Beep.…
The Rumpus Reads for 826 Chicago!
We are excited to to present an AWP offsite spectacular: The Rumpus Reads for 826 Chicago. Featuring readings by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed (yes indeed, Sugar will be in the…
A Celebration of Printed Correspondence
The Rumpus and Housing Works Proudly Present: Letters In The Mail. A Celebration of Printed Correspondence. Featuring Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Ames, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, Marie Calloway, Michelle Orange and…
Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods
Today in book review, Andrea Scrima reviews Helen DeWitt’s amazing new satirical novel, Lightning Rods. Read the review.