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Notable New York, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a Girls Write Now benefit; Martín Espada reads from his new…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life in a cult used to be so much cooler. Competitive Swinging is an art installation I can get behind. Similarly I am a big fan of typographical illustrations. Life gives you broken china, make broken china brass knuckles. These…
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The Rumpus Interview with Wylie Dufresne
As the owner and chef of Manhattan’s wd~50, Wylie Dufresne is considered a pioneer in the art of molecular gastronomy, the combining of cooking with chemistry. The results are exciting, disorienting, and delicious.
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Writing About a Psychiatrist’s Death
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was really the point,’ she says. ‘I was so scared of…
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Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the most prominently featured book was a diet book. The book…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A fascinating interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez. (via) File under signs of the apocalypse: The Meowmorphisis. Oscar Villalon wonders who The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature was really written for. “The Intimate Orwell.“
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Self Lit: The Reading
Think of it, perhaps, as a mini-Rumpus, south Florida style, tonight at 8:00 p.m at The Projects in FAT Village. This is the literary component of the Self Lit Art Show, featuring readings by Rumpus contributors Amy Letter, Emma Trelles,…
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The Avatars of Vishnu
Via Rumpus Contributor Michael Hollander, here’s some great art and an even better story from Nina Paley about some work she did for the Brooklyn Museum. It might seem dry–she talks a lot about contracts and Creative Commons licenses–but in…
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Science Saturday
So, global warming isn’t happening? Tell that to the people who will starve because crop yields are down due to hotter temperatures. Computer scientists at the University of Texas-Austin have induced schizophrenic symptoms in a computer. I am made unreasonably…
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Saturday Morning Links
My eyes are taking some time to focus this morning, so I’m occasionally lifting my glasses and putting my nose on my laptop screen. No idea why you would need to know that. Haven’t read one of these stories in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe we all came from this dude. Life aboard a spy plane (way to go world). Similarly: let’s all check out James Bond first editions. How to swim in the 17th Century. Lastly: BIRD HATS.