The Atlas Shrugged movie has opened–and we have the antidote. Rebecca Coffey recorded and musically scored (really!) “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese” recipe. Listen or download the podcast here.
Letters of Note on Einstein’s one great mistake. Iranian kids books are pretty great, can we agree on this? The internet exists so I can spend all day listening to…
This week in San Francisco…it’s the 105th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, 4/20 is celebrated Dude style at the Red Vic, and Friends of the Public Library is having a…
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul…
Bad news dudes, medicine doesn’t work in space. All your T.S. Eliot picture needs. Russian underwater creatures are even cooler Water towers of Ireland. (Because, really, why not?) Anthropomorphic koalas…
“…it’s all around us, seeps into everything we do, but we don’t see it, we can’t see it, because it’s simply everywhere. It powers us into work, takes us on…
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and…
Poet Dean Young, the author of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for April Fall HIgher, has apparently had successful heart transplant surgery. We wish him all the best and…
Comedian and Rumpus contributor Kyle Kinane (who Zak Smith calls “the best comedian I’ve ever seen”) will be performing at the Punchline in San Francisco this weekend. If you live…