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…
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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…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is what the world has come to: urban emoticons. Fish used to walk all over the place. Dornith Doherty takes pictures of seed life. Way to go Dornith. The…
Dark Matter
As scientists search for the “God particle,” The Awl explains some things about Higgs and gives us a glimpse into the world of physicists and all their certainty. “Physicists do…
FUNNY WOMEN #69: Pitches for the Lifetime Movie Channel
Dear Lifetime Channel, I’m delighted to see Lifetime breaking new ground in source material for feature films, tapping directly into the zeitgeist and speaking straight to the next generation of…
Tweets: The New Money
“Pay with a Tweet allows writers, publishers, musicians, artists and companies to set up social network exchanges. Readers simply click on the “Pay with a Tweet” button on the website,…
Best American Reading Tonight!
Join Tom Barbash and Mac McClelland, contributers to The Best American Nonrequired Reading for a reading and benefit for 826 Valencia. The event is at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza tonight at…