“so I took a deep breath and I jumped”
Roxane Gay isn’t just for adults. Rookie Mag’s online issue, currently themed “Age of Innocence,” just posted the new(ish — the original was published in Prairie Schooner) beautiful story on…
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“Nigeria Is Almost A Third Character In My Work”
Check out this slideshow of work by emerging artist and Studio Harlem alum Njideka Akunyili, who grew up in New Haven, Nigeria, and got her MFA at Yale in New Haven,…
Sports Writing Goes North
A long but magnificent read from Grantland: “Out in the Great Alone.” It’s an intense and unbelievably detailed story about the Iditarod, by Brian Phillips, a sports writer who “hate[s] snow”…
Patrons and Propaganda
Michelangelo had the Medicis; Jackson Pollock had the CIA. It’s true—in order to ensure the US kept up with the Soviet Union culturally and artistically, the CIA funded abstract expressionist…
The Prettiest Cocoons You’ll Ever See
If magpies can nick our shiny objects for their own purposes, why not other animals? French artist Hubert Duprat puts jewels in the aquariums of caddis fly larvae, obliging them to…
Fresh Air Win
On Tumblr, Fresh Air itself highlights the conversation between Martha Bayne and Zoe Zolbrod about Bayne’s Rumpus essay “Knocked Over: On Biology, Magical Thinking and Choice.” Bayne recorded a Fresh Air interview…
An Evening with Derek Waters at SFIFF
Some would say that Derek Waters is a man with an idea. And, that idea is to get people inebriated and then ask them to recount an historical event. But…
Embarrassing Parents
A mother of a 7th grade student at Northville Mill Middle School in Michigan is protesting the school to send home permission slips before assigning “The Diary of Anne Frank” to its…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyone needs a little British library intrigue. Notes towards a film adaptation of 2666. Fact: Candyland has gotten sexier. Now there is a new earliest Mayan monument. Currently, there are…
Sloane Crosley’s Recommendations For Readers in Transit
Prolific nonfiction author (How Did You Get This Number?), book editor, and columnist Sloane Crosley is in the middle of moving apartments, an arduous process which can lead to all…
Debut Novel Merits Another Look for Peter Orner
San Francisco-based author and Rumpus columnist Peter Orner is the mind behind such works as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and Love and Shame and Love. Now Esther Stories, his…
E.B White and the Personal Essay
Brainpickings recent article “E.B. White on Egoism and the Art of the Essay” highlights and explores several timeless passages from Essays of E.B. White. White states: The essayist is a self-liberated…