More information on the South Carolina jail that refuses to allow its inmates any books or reading materials that are not the Bible, spurring last year’s ACLU lawsuit and a…
Rumpus contributor and wordsmith extraordinaire, Antonia Crane will be at tomorrow’s RADAR reading series event. She will be featured during The Hot Probs segment, in which she will alleviate all…
Today in old books: The Cabinet of Curiosity and The Key of Hell (!!!!) When people hold underwater photography contests, everyone wins. Did someone say space boat? Japan sure does…
This week in San Francisco, The Monthly Rumpus is all happening, free PBR and laughs at the Roxie and Bay to Breakers is here, again, for the 100th time! Monday,…
Join us tonight(!) at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd Street) in San Francisco at 7 pm for one of our best events yet. We’ll be rocking with authors Cheryl Strayed,…
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a…
Life in a cult used to be so much cooler. Competitive Swinging is an art installation I can get behind. Similarly I am a big fan of typographical illustrations. Life…
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was…
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the…
A fascinating interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez. (via) File under signs of the apocalypse: The Meowmorphisis. Oscar Villalon wonders who The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature was really written…