This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud,…
To celebrate my second week filling in for Dan Weiss, I present this tote bag. There are drawings in here of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a jazz combo.…
Remember the Wikileaks video depicting the killing of twelve people, including two children and a journalist, in Iraq? Well, one of the soldiers responsible has written a formal letter of…
Sorry for the light posting today. Combination of computer issues and personal matters. Here are some poetry links for you. Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month…
Good mid-morning everyone. This is, in general, good writing advice, except for the recommendation to reread Strunk & White. Ta-Nehisi Coates has spent much of April doing his own commemoration…
If you enjoy flipping through the first eighty pages of Vogue, Tanner Hall is the film for you. Evident throughout were the beautiful people, the beautiful clothes, the beautiful places.…
Banksy visited Valencia Street in San Francisco. (You can read the Rumpus conversation with Banksy here.) Our new hundred dollars bills are so ugly. Someone out there could probably make…
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: Fresh Starts and New Mistakes May 10th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Keith Lee Morris, Jillian…
“NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes.” Ok, we can’t…
I don’t even drink coffee. This is Walter Green still, filling in for Dan Weiss. “Connecticut mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend.” And I can’t even get poked! Hi-yo! Crows…