So, as Stephen mentioned in a recent Daily Rumpus, we’ll be doing a poetry version of the Rumpus Book Club. We’re in the early stages at present, but we’ll make…
When I see a story that includes an intersection between porn and fundamentalist Christianity, it usually involves a heaping helping of hypocrisy–a gay-bashing preacher who’s secretly gay; a family-values politician…
Remember “Climate-Gate”? Your perception of it is no doubt shaded by your understanding (or lack thereof) of the science supporting global climate change. Unfortunately, that understanding is often screwed with…
It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions…
List of National Book Award Finalist titles that, when put under a phallocentric microscope, could be read as possible references to the author’s own genitalia:
If you live in the Bay Area don’t miss The Believer‘s All-Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking. Click the link for details (or just take our word for it…
What a tiny cabin. A very important discussion on birds and their terrorizing habits. Massimo Vitali takes epic beach photographs. I have been wondering for a while where my fins…
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination. Yesterday a…
“The impressive writing makes The Rumpus stand out. Rick Moody’s Swinging Modern Sounds column matches up against any music blog, and its staff and roster of contributing authors always come…
“I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other from the tree of time. “Tonight I…
Dearest sweet peas, There’s been a tiny bit of trouble in Sugarland—nothing disastrous or tragic, just enough of something that I wasn’t able to write a column this week. I’ll…