Jeffrey Eugenides, who has never written a novel that wasn’t well-received, has a new title called The Marriage Plot coming out in October, eight years since everybody first loved Middlesex.…
Voices of Witness, the nonprofit bookseries imprint of McSweeney’s has a new book coming out in July but you can pre-order it now! Patriot Acts: Narrratives of Post-9/11 Injustice compiles…
Drug-Related Photoshop Art is Tao Lin’s new weekly column in Vice. As per Lin-style poetry, it involves contemporary cultural references interspersed with notable, historical artists. That being said, get ready…
Lorelei Lee, longtime Rumpus contributor, lover of books and creative writing scholar, is teaching “Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body,” a six-week class on corporeal creative writing hosted…
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the rad new animals. Speaking of: wild animal sex! Let’s all watch BART get built, yes? Beautiful parking lots (seem like…
Cathy Davidson wrote a response to Bill Keller’s article on the pitfalls of twitter, “The Twitter Trap.” She defends technology with some historical and neuroscience-based evidence, calling for a restructuring…
This week in San Francisco: SMiLE at the Knockout to raise money for the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, SF Popfest gets going at the Rickshaw and CHEESE! at the…
Somehow I missed this back in March: gesture-based touchscreen phone keyboard Swype is available for download again! Laptop batteries that will last three years? Sign me up! Chinese factory Foxconn,…
Creative programs are increasingly common and so are their criticisms. The difficulty with pinpointing creativity to an academic institution or justifying a trend where tuition money and literary prowess are…
The Chronicle Review published an essay on the economics of unhappiness and what it means to live in a society where economic growth is considered normal. The growth patterns of…
This week in New York the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards at Housing Works; Book Expo America runs all week; Emma Donohue, Room, at powerHouse; book launch parties for Vanessa Hidary,…