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Pay-What-You-Want Australian Lit Bundle

Wish you could have it all, for less? Australian ebook retailer Tomely.com is offering a pay-what-you-want promotion for a bundle of seven of Australia’s leading lit journals/collections (Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, The…

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FUNNY WOMEN #103: Gertrude Stein Reviews Beer

If I drank it, would Napoleon, would he drink it if I liked him. Would Napoleon, would the top notes, would the caramel if I told him.

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“You will be loved by people you’ve never met”

“I had started out in silence, written as quietly as I had read, and then eventually people read some of what I had written, and some of the readers entered…

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Language Log for Prairie Dogs

Con Slobodchikoff is a word nerd of a different sort than the ones we usually write about on the Rumpus. After studying prairie dogs for thirty years, he’s concluded that…

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LRB Finds Itself in Hole, Keeps Digging

We’ve written a fair amount about this year’s VIDA numbers. We even featured an essay by Andrew Ervin, a writer who realized he was part of the problem—only 23.5% of the…

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No Wonder We Need Spelling Bees to Remember It All

Silent letters, multiple possible sounds per letter, counterintuitive letter combinations…why is English spelling so damn weird? David Crystal, author of linguistic history Spell It Out, explains the numerous and conflicting forces…

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Man to Purchase Drone, Drop Poems Instead of Bombs

The Los Angeles poet, translator, and filmmaker David Shook has created a Kickstarter campaign with the imaginative objective of purchasing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—i.e., a drone—to rain specially comissioned…

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Help Texan Women Beat SB5

Remember that scary Texas abortion bill we posted about yesterday? The one that would, among other woman-hating and unscientific measures, ban abortion 20 weeks after fertilization, without exceptions for rape…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Let’s all enjoy some pictures of DC’s early punk scene. India takes the next step towards dolphin personhood. Mapping every library and museum in America (is a good thing to…

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Bad News for English Majors

Last week, we blogged about how, contrary to popular opinion, English majors are, in fact, employable. But, argues Verlyn Klinkenborg, the misperception that the humanities are impractical career-wise is actually…

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A Portrait of the Character as a Fictional Creation

Lovers of fiction and art (i.e., pretty much every Rumpus reader), listen up. The Modern Eden Gallery is San Francisco is hosting an exhibition called “Fiction,” in which artists portray…

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Sylvia Plath Inspires Adoration, Scorn

Sylvia Plath has always been a polarizing figure, a fact underscored by the reaction to editions of her work recently released to mark fifty years since her death. Are her…

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