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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished? Split in half food is a good thing to photograph.…
Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus?
No? Why not? We’d like to know the last book you loved and why. Send us a writeup of the last book you truly loved — a little bit book review and…
New Releases by Ernest Hemingway
Beneath Hemingway’s estate in Havana, Cuba, 2,000 documents were left forgotten and unpublished in his damp basement. The estate, neglected because of its tricky location, was becoming increasingly decrepit until…
Fourteen Hills Release Party!
Fourteen Hills is one of our favorite Bay Area literary journals, and you won’t want to miss their release party for issue 19.2 at 7:00 pm on May 15th, at the…
The Next Letter in the Mail: Alexis Smith
The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 15, is from Alexis Smith! Alexis is the author of the novel Glaciers and a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA program in creative writing.…
Coverflip: If Books By Men Were By Women
As Elissa Bassist’s recent Funny Women column “The Next Great American Woman’s Novel” reminded us, books by women tend to get treated a little…differently from books by men. What would…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You will be missed western black rhino. No, glass really isn’t a liquid. Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either. Now let’s talk…
“First of all, I can stop competing with Jonathan Franzen”
We love our Funny Women, and Jezebel does, too! They’ve republished Elissa Bassist’s satire, “Writing the Next Great American Woman’s Novel.” But you saw it here first.
The Golden Age of GIFs
“I mean, surely not every human emotion can be rendered in a few dozen repeated, low-resolution images. And yet…” Recently, A.D. Jameson asked the question “Are Animated GIFs a Type…
Unexpected Poetry
What if, instead of crude, crass graffiti, walls were painted with poetry? This reality has already started in Camden, New Jersey where words from Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Ballad” were printed…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Some good news: Disney isn’t going to trademark Dia de los Muertos after all. Wired worms its way farther into my heart via a list of recent awesome dinosaur discoveries.…