First, you and your grandmother decorate Easter eggs to put on the Seder plate. This is her Passover tradition. She will have decided that Seder plates “could use a little…
This Week, Get ready for next week’s Monthly Rumpus with a Yellow Dress show, check out emerging writers at USF and established ones at Grow the F*ck Up! at the…
The Christian Science Monitor just printed a great story by Jordan Heller that opened my eyes to a whole world I didn’t even know existed: baseball players who have dropped…
Shit, I put my cyanide pill in the same pocket as my Mentos again. What? Why do I carry around Mentos? Fresh breath, dummy. Oh, the other thing. Because, Doug,…
Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! April 12th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Featuring authors Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart! With…
“Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women.” A…
The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a…
The Rumpus, Tin House, and Flavorpill Present: A Night Together April 6 at The Highline Ballroom Featuring Authors: Sam Lipsyte, Colson Whitehead, and Lorelei Lee With This American Life‘s Starlee…