The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash…
This week in San Francisco, Twitter IRL, SOMArts asks How Do You Value Art?, more art at Hotel Biron, and even more art (and readings!) at Sub-Mission’s Skate This Art.…
This week in New York David Grossman translates with Paul Auster, Justin Taylor and Eva Tamladge exhibit tattoos for the literary inclined, Tao Lin reads, Guernica celebrates, Bill Bryson is…
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you…
Jonathan Farmer has some ideas on ways people can support poetry in the digital age. I really support his fifth one, which suggests getting web designers and programmers involved in…
I could have linked to this in Poetic Lives Online, but I feel inspired by the Chaka Khan playing in the background to open it up to the Saturday crown.…
Fascinating presentation by Hans Rosling about how the world is winning the war on child mortality. Is water more common on asteroids than originally thought? Remember that story about the…
To be perfectly honest, I’d probably have ignored this piece by Seth Abramson about the top 25 Underrated Creative Writing programs if my partner Amy and several Facebook friends hadn’t…
So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry…
I am endlessly fascinated by these amazing pictures of Dubai. Almost certainly the most whimsical Japanese bank I’ve seen today. I don’t usually like links in other languages, but there…