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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So tell me, what DO colorblind people see? Remembering the Automat. Coming soon to a touch screen near you: texture! This is potentially pretty huge: Ambien seems to be waking…
On Race and Empathy
In the last few days there have been many thoughtful take-downs of the already infamous Forbes “If I were a poor black kid” column. Don’t miss Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic response…
Sugar Love
Writer Logan Sachon included Sugar’s “The Truth that lives there” in her top five longreads of 2011. Hooray! “I’m a Sugar devotee; her columns have been such a help to…
More Year-End Love
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay’s book Ayiti was listed by the The National Book Critics Circle blog as one of their Small Press Highlights of 2011. Of Ayiti they write “The…
Praise for Treasure Island!!!
“This book is funny. I mean it. It’s pee in your pants funny. The beginning of the book which involves the unnamed narrator working at a Pet Library -exactly how…
Love you too, Harriet!
Harriet, aka the Poetry Foundation blog, has posted an excerpt of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s recent chat with T. R. Hummer. Watch as I learn what the Bald Man…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
AHHH! COMET HARPOON! AHHHHHH! GREENLAND SHARK! Fact: loud music makes drinking better. Disneyland clean-up operations are pretty dang fascinating. (via Atlas Obscura.) Our sense of smell is way better than…
“Best of 2011” Remix
Elissa Schappell has assembled her own list of books that have not received all the love they deserve during this 2011 “best of” season. Her endorsements includes Rumpus Book Club…
Practice Restraint
Electric Literature is asking us to show some restraint this holiday season with their Holiday Restraint Short Short Contest. Submit “a short short of 30 to 300 words, that uses…
Louis CK’s Big Discovery
Louis CK has revealed the results of a social experiment in which he directed, self-produced, and sold his show Louis C.K. Live At The Beacon Theater. By doing it all…