Hello, today is my final day filling in for Dan. That Dan Weiss of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come at him,…
This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus! Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity:…
Tonight(!) at The Make-Out Room, 7pm. Featuring authors Keith Lee Morris, Jillian Lauren, Beth Lisick, and Andrew Sean Greer! With Comedy by Kyle Kinane. Music by Michael Mullen. Plus a…
That’s entirely untrue. Brightly-colored snakes aren’t venomous, Doug, they’re fabulous. The reds and yellows are just a reptile’s way of saying, “Hey world, get a load of me!” They’re not…
This week in New York, Granta’s Sex Party, The Moth Mainstage presents Saints and Sinners, SLEIGH BELLS perform, Emily Gould celebrates her new memoir with a party, Sebastian Junger discusses…
Oh hey, here’s the crazy map of botched police raids you asked me for. “Leaders and their moms.” A lot of dumb people rank the most dangerous cities in the…
Tara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts’s response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was…
Elissa Bassist, editor/curator of The Rumpus’s Funny Women series (submission guidelines here) is a new contributor to Salon’s Broadsheet. Her first offering is titled “Sleep Your Way to a Book…
Eyjafjallajökull–remember that?–is erupting again. Wonder what the US space program has in mind? Here’s one look at it. Have you ever wanted to hunt Burmese Pythons? Come to Florida. I…
Good morning. Let’s see what the tubes have for us today. Over at Harper’s, Mr. Fish adds to the Arizona immigration debate. Mother Jones explores the world of H-2A guest…