North of the Border
A group of Mexican teenagers encounters a bizarre America in Luis Alberto Urrea’s latest novel.
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Morning Coffee
It’s Monday, how about a new Rumpus Survey! Looking for the latest in ex-stalking technology? Look no further. Boy chosen by Dalai Lama as a reincarnated guru turns his back…
Even the Future Has Gone to Shit
Over at TOR, Robert Charles Wilson compares ABC’s new Earth 2100 documentary to Disney’s 1955 program Man in Space in order to trace how our vision of the future has changed. …
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Barbara Jane Reyes has a good response to the New Yorker article on MFA programs I posted earlier. At Harriet, Don Share takes on poetry reviews, even though he’s tired…
The Future Business Model for Newspapers
King Kaufman is one of my favorite sports columnists ever, and it killed me when Salon changed his job description. But this isn’t about sports. It’s about the future of…
Coming Soon: Sex Galaxy
What do you get when you splice together burlesque queens, 50’s sci-fi, and other bits of film that were never properly copyrighted? You get the first blue/green film–green because it’s…
Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
I’ll hazard a guess and say that the majority of people who contribute to and work on the Rumpus have some sort of writing degree or are pursuing one, and…
Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do
Novelist Orhan Pamuk asks in The Guardian “why do beautiful scenes inspire us to kiss?” Millions of people who live outside the west – and especially those who, like me,…
Saturday Morning Links
Because it’s Saturday, and because at heart I’m a child, Who Pooped? It’s hard to say just how super they are, but there are superheroes roaming around. I wonder if…
The Machine that Changed the World
Just in case you were looking for a compelling 5-part documentary series to watch for free over the weekend, consider The Machine that Changed the World, a history of computing…
An Oral History of Myself #6: Pat
I left home at thirteen and spent a year on the streets, more or less, and four years in group homes. Because of that my social network was significantly wider…