The Rumpus and McSweeney’s Proudly Present: Sleeping With Friends March 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Jesse Nathan, Jami Attenberg,…
Stephen Hawking: galactic tagger. The long-list for the weirdest titled books of 2009 award (has been announced). NYRB essay on the history of Facebook. The Scentisizer! Prophetic pictures from 1905…
This week: Party with The Rumpus, learn about the future of newspapers according to the good people of McSweeney’s, celebrate the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 20th birthday, and rock the Shabbat…
The February Monthly Rumpus will be at The Make-Out Room tonight! Featuring authors Tony Dushane, Robin Ekiss, Ethan Watters, Kevin Sampsell, and Daniel Handler! Along with the hilarious DJ Real…
No, you’re confused, Doug. “Asbestos” was the name of that Greek drive-thru they converted into a free clinic. This is insulation that’s going keep my bad-ass fort warm come winter…
This week in New York, Harper’s presents “Love: A Rebuke” with Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits and Sam Lipsyte, Simon Critchley in bed with Cabinet’s Brian Dillon chatting about hypochondria, Vol.…
Clothing for the discerning clergyman. Sometimes people are really into typefaces but also have too much free time; those people do things like this. Hella sweet pictures of astronauts and…
I’m always interested in the different ways poets are exploring to get poems out to the reading public. Cellpoems calls itself “a txt-msg poetry journal,” though thankfully none of the…
A team of scientists says they’ve mapped the color scheme of the oldest discovered feathered dinosaur. Gene patents are under attack in federal court. Good. Shackleton’s whiskey is being recovered…
I would totally buy this. If it were real. And assuming I needed a chain saw. Twitpics are no big deal. Twitpics from space, though… I’m sure I’m not the…