Notable New York: 06/17-06/23
Tuesday 06/18: The Bushwick Book Club does Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. If you haven’t seen this series where musicians reinterpret…
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“On Loitering” Shoutout
John Proctor (the Hunger Mountain editor, not the historical figure/Crucible character hanged for witchcraft in 17th-century Salem) has a blog post up about Steven Church’s Rumpus essay “On Loitering.” “…it…
Notable San Francisco 6/17-6/22
Monday 6/17: Porchlight reading series presents Impostors: “an unforgettable evening of stories about the terrible and surprising things we do for fame, fortune, and revenge.” 8pm, Verdi Club. Tuesday 6/18:…
Nick Cave Monday #40: “City of Refuge”
If you commit manslaughter, you better run to the City of Refuge. It’s what the Old Testament tells us to do because under biblical law the family of the victim…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It’s Monday. You’re working hard. Take a moment to stop and smell the weekend Rumpus roundup. First, Yumi Sakugawa takes us to the heart of the forest in a comic…
Protests Spread Throughout Brazil
Turkey isn’t the only country experiencing protests right now; people are also gathering to demonstrate in Brazil. Protests began last week in São Paulo when bus fare was raised from…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
60 plus years of 1984 cover design. Perhaps you are need of some inspiration today; this is a story about a female amputee scaling Everest. Headline of the day: “Mind-reading…
Evaluating Books One Pie Chart at A Time
Sometimes exegesis of a literary text just isn’t colorful enough. That’s when you break out the pie charts. Publishers Weekly‘s news blog, PWxyz, has an ongoing feature that slices canonical…
Neil Gaiman Prepares for Six-Month “Sabbatical” from Social Media
Don’t be alarmed come January 2014 when Neil Gaiman suddenly stops updating his blog, Twitter, and Facebook page. Gaiman simply needs a vacation from the pervasive and demanding nature of…
New Anthology Celebrating Prog Rock Includes Rick Moody, Joe Meno, and Others
Lovers of progressive rock legends like King Crimson, Genesis, or Emerson, Lake and Palmer should check out Yes is the Answer: And Other Prog Tales, a literary anthology edited by…
The New York Comics Symposium: Olivia Koski
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
Pen & Ink Seeking Submissions for Book
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a tattoo might be worth a book. If that sounds like the kind of book you’d like to read, good news: Pen &…