Live As if Everything Were a Miracle
“Someone said there are only two ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is. I’ve always been convinced…
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December 14th: The Monthly Rumpus in San Francisco
Please join us on December 14th at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd St.) for a night of literature, music, and comedy. Featuring Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine, James Nestor,…
A Eulogy for Editor & Publisher
“It’s a sad day, but in a strange way the death of Editor & Publisher gives me hope for the future of journalism. Because they showed us a blueprint, that…
Funny Women Around the Web
To start a revolution, we need more than just a column. Occasionally we’d like to link to particularly hysterical funny women all over the Internet. Edith Zimmerman at The Awl…
Morning Coffee
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat…
What Buildings Would You Ban?
“Fear, on one side, of watching Europe turn into “Eurabia” —even if the demographics don’t justify such worries—and, on the other, of seeing centuries’ worth of social liberalization—including women’s suffrage…
Water Causes Cancer And Other Truths
Time Magazine has already called it “The Decade From Hell.” (Couldn’t have been worse than the 1940’s?! Could it? I mean the 40’s had Hitler AND Stalin.) And if you…
The December Monthly Rumpus
December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm Get Advance Tickets! Click here! Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring: Andrew Leland from…
Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to…
“Friends” vs. Friends, Twitter vs. The Long Missive
William Deresiewicz just published a long essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that’s worth spending some time with: “Faux Friendship,” in which he traces how the concept of friendship…
What Did You Read in 2009?
Want to know what book Jonathan Lethem really enjoyed this year? How about three books that Nick Flynn liked? Dana Goodyear? Jesse Ball? Well you’re in luck, The Millions has…
Social Rumpus
Are you a fan of The Rumpus on Facebook yet? Click here and join us, you will have no regrets. Or at least not many. Twitter more your thing? Click…