I didn’t want to put my books on your shelves anyway, Ikea. The Chinese are crushing us both in industry AND whimsy! We are also being beaten by the Finnish…
“I quit smoking on Halloween 1988. In December 1988 I was walking to work in a snowstorm when I had the biggest sneeze of my life and afterwards found in…
Michael Kelleher takes some time to get deeper into the matter of the poetry market (such as it is) and does a good job of breaking down the power structure.…
Remember way back last week when I told you about seeing a supernova from your back yard? Yeah, well, astronomers want your help in studying it. I’m always fascinated by…
I’ve got coffee in my Dalek mug and Gladys the Mucus Machine riding shotgun. What could go wrong? Given Steve Almond’s lamentation on what we lost that we published yesterday,…
What up Los Angeles? The Rumpus doesn’t exclude any part of California and to prove it, we’re having an event in LA! Because, “It’s About Time”!! Featuring brilliant authors Joshuah…
Electric Literature is embarking on a new ranking system that will most definitely change the way you reflect on the past month of online book reviews. It’s called the Critical…
After 9/11 the abundant “Missing” posters that hung around Manhattan were part of the fabric of post-9/11 of the city. A lot of them weren’t as much “Missing” signs as…
Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Yorker piece, “Speechless” eloquently identifies the difficulty of finding words amidst an indescribable nightmare while remembering 9/11. “Dozens of phone calls home were placed from the…
Here are a lot of Polaroids from John Waters’ house, if that’s your thing. Mussolini’s toothpaste over at 50 Watts. The United Nations make some neat stamps. Look Higgs Boson…