The Waka Effect
It’s a tale as old as the ancient bones of the hills: A middle-aged white lady develops an interest in blogging about rap music. She befriends hip-hop artist Waka Flocka…
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Tao Lin Tells Tattoo Tale
If you didn’t already know, Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton run a spiffy little blog called Pen & Ink, which documents “tattoos and the stories behind them.”…
“The Story Behind Stoner“
Remember the Steve Almond essay “Lost and Found” from back in 2009? It was about a novel by John Williams (not the Star Wars composer) called Stoner (not like the marijuana enthusiast),…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
BBC asks the important question: why do Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes? oh hello lost underwater Egyptian city. The Milky Way’s spirals are pretty interesting! The future is regenerative…
The Kindle’s not-so-stealthy attack
Amazon has been putting out feelers in communities that are doing just fine with out them, thank you very much. First, Kindle Worlds is Amazon’s attempt to commodify fan fiction…
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers Sets Fire to Precedent
It seems that a woman may have written the next ‘Great American Novel.’ And male critics are freaking out about it.
An irreverent improvement on the literature GRE
Whether or not the fate of your future depends on how well you study for the literature GRE, Jimmy Chen’s mock exam will not help you. In any case, the…
Break My Heart Everyday
“Dear Allah: If it will keep my heart soft, break my heart everyday.” This is how writer and poet Warsan Shire’s beautiful album of spoken word ends. In “warsan versus…
Rosie the Literary Riveter
“You decide you cannot fault these people for making you angry and miserable, but you feel crazy: half mad at yourself, half mad at these cheer-leeches.” So says Lucy Schiller in…
Rumpus Writers on the Jubilee’s Literary Stage
The Jubilee Music and Arts Festival, happening this weekend in Los Angeles, will showcase indie musicians like The Drums and The Black Lips, but it will also feature a variety…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
People sure do seem to love American dialect maps these days. The bottom of the ocean is filthy! I think we can all agree that we need more human anatomy/art…
Remembering Marina Keegan
A little over a year ago, Marina Keegan gained her undergraduate degree from Yale University. Five days later, she died in a car accident. Keegan was carving out a path…