“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…
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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…
TRUTH SERUM:
Costumed (Part 2)
Truth Serum books, in case your computer screen is broken. (Or gets broken by a complete stranger I absolutely did not hire.)
Morning Coffee
Fun fact: lobsters don’t age! Scientists want to know why your brother won’t share with you. Chip Kidd on designing Nabokov. Everyday is a good day for insect macro-photography. The…
My Cousin Bernie
Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman and (coincidentally) his cousin Sarah have created a game so fun they just had to share it with the internet. My Cousin Bernie started when “Sarah…
FUNNY WOMEN #9: Mars/Venus for Your Fetus
Dear Future Dads, So, you’re expecting a baby (by “expecting” I mean “dreading,” and by “a baby,” I mean “the consequences of using that glow-in-the-dark condom from 1989”)! That’s wonderful!
The Road to Cell
I wrote a New Scientist piece earlier this year on the nearly criminal foot-dragging by Detroit over safety advances made by pioneering engineers in the 1950s and 60s, and that…
Morning Coffee
New Scientist photo-essay on homosexual animals. Aww! Other countries are a lot better at rad eco design than us: the Greenspotlight. Warsaw urban art. On the other end of the…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #13
FAKING AN ILLNESS FOR SYMPATHY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing faking an illness for…
Notable New York, This Week 12/7 – 12/13
This week in New York Malcolm Gladwell and James Wood talk about Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual, members of the Velvet Underground reunite at the New York Public Library, 60…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #14
These fucking DUIs are killing me, Doug. That’s why I’m getting my pilot’s license. No cops in the sky, buddy. More.