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Nobel laureates sketch their discoveries. Atlas Obscura on under-appreciated New York. Here are some slang words that start with “Z”. Solitary confinement is pretty much the worst thing. Everyone needs…
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You Can’t Have A Revolution Unless You Make It For Yourself
When a book is read, the story is transferred from the writer to the reader. Occasionally, however, the reader is allowed a glimpse into what the author may have been…
What Makes a Book Not Worth Finishing?
Is it that you don’t connect to the characters, or that the writing is weak? Maybe there’s one too many typos or the plot seems implausible. Goodreads has created an…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Release Surprisingly Literary Music Video
Regardless of your level of enamoration with indie-rock mainstays the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, if you’re a Rumpus reader, you’ll probably dig the video for their new single “Sacrilege.” It unfolds…
What About Sex-Negative Feminism?
“Sex does not happen in a vacuum immune to outside structural influences,” writes Jillian Horowitz in a piece titled “Unpopular Opinion: I’m A Sex-Negative Feminist.” “[I]n fact, it can (and…
When the Writer Becomes the Written About
When I write a story about someone else, I keep me, myself and I, out of it….But a few years back, I wrote about someone else and did belong in…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch out Ireland! There might be a Russian ghost ship heading right towards you! Io9 pictures prohibition. Here is a 1962 NASA rejection letter to a prospective female astronaut. MIT’s…
Tonight! Quiet Lightning + The Rumpus
We’re teaming up with Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s favorite monthly submission-based reading series, to host a night of deep thinking and good drinking. Featured guests include Alice LaPlante, Brandon Brown, Janine Brito,…
Hurry, Sloth!
Looking for something delightful? Watch Black Francis of The Pixies read James Otto Seibold’s Lost Sloth, “the best-ever, and funniest, picture book about a sloth.” Enjoy:
Ox and Pigeon: A Heroic E-Publishing House for Unilingual Americans
The digital literary press Ox and Pigeon was created in 2010 by three friends who, on vacation in Peru, recognized the need for high-quality English translations of all the brilliant…
Organic Keeping-on
Mental Floss’s brief history of the term “OK” is more than just all right. Using Allan Metcalf’s OK: The Improbably Story of America’s Greatest Word as a source, it covers not…
How the Other Half of Myself Lives
When Tara Clancy’s mom went from being a cleaning lady to being the girlfriend of the millionaire whose office she cleaned, Clancy’s time became divided in a strange way: If…