Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The simple pleasure of great art in ugly rooms. Aquanauts are the new thing you guys. This is a story about very old moss or whatever. Now we can turn…
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Cecil Castellucci Readings for Kids and Grownups This Weekend
Bay Area readers, you’re in for a treat. Our Letters for Kids editor Cecil Castellucci has a new picture book out, and you can go see her read it in…
A Literary Hoax as Weird as the Dickens
“When Dickens Met Dostoevsky,” a recent article in the Times Literary Supplement, starts out at the highest echelons of writerdom: Michiko Kakutani discusses an encounter between Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky,…
The Agony of Adjuncts
This week, Chronicle of Higher Education advice-columnist “Ms. Mentor” counsels a recent MFA graduate on her career options. The recent grad is considering a gig as an adjunct professor teaching composition,…
Lydia Davis and Twitter: A Match Made in Heaven
For some writers, Twitter isn’t a newfangled distraction but rather an extension of the art they’ve been making all along. Lydia Davis, whose stories often span only a few sentences,…
Memorial Day Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. We certainly did—we chowed down on delicious Rumpus features.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in whimsy: 3-d foam art and the descriptive camera. Also this is a story about a dachshund and his lion best friend. It is for you. Now is…
Nick Cave Monday #37: “The Singer”
What does it all mean? Does it even matter that we are all Bad Seeders in this existence? Is the journey worth it? When we suck our last breath and…
Notable New York: 5/27-6/2
Monday 05/27: It’s Memorial Day, go outside, eat a burger — vegetable or cow — off a grill, and read a book in a park. Tuesday 05/28: Rare Bird and…
Notable San Francisco 5/27-6/1
Monday 5/27: Porchlight’s on with Kitchen Confidential, stories from the folks who run all your favorite local bars and restaurants. $15, 8pm, Hemlock Tavern. Tuesday 5/28: Inside StoryTime presents filmmaker…
Literary Feuds in the Digital Age Get Ugly
While we were all shaking our heads about sexist changes to the “American Novelists” page, Wikipedia editor “Qworty” was taking action—by making a series of “revenge edits” to Amanda Filipacchi’s page.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s my birthday and a holiday weekend, so we’re taking a couple days off. In the meanwhile here are some great tumblrs to fill your time. See you on Tuesday.