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Author Appearance: Anne Lammott and Son Have “Some Assembly Required”

San Francisco-based author Anne Lammott is the prolific novelist and non-fiction writer behind works such as Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year and the indispensable writer’s guide Bird…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

There is a good chance that you would like to know more about ricin today. The Offshore Freeway and other visions of the Los Angeles that could have been. It’s…

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Record-a-Poem!

Let’s help the Poetry Foundation celebrate National Poetry Month by recording our favorite poems! Check out their SoundCloud page where, in just a few clicks, you can record yourself reading any…

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Welcome to the Clone Zone

Via Longreads, a Carl Zimmer story on his National Geographic blog about bringing lost species back from extinction. Dinosaurs are probably out of the question because their remains are too old to contain usable DNA,…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

This just in: Tetris is the best. Leonardo da Vinci applies for a job. Perhaps you’d like some 1970s science textbook design today. Not sleeping with your cousin is very…

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Get Involved With A Blog About “Raising Good Citizens”

Do you have something to say about race and parenting and youth? Racialicious’s sister site Love Isn’t Enough is looking for writers, editors, and more! Details here.

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Boston Marathon Roundup

If you’re looking for a token of solace after the Boston marathon bombings, please check out Roxane Gay’s words if you haven’t already. And Thomas Page McBee reflects on ways…

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New Readers Report Theme: “Misery Loves Company” (Submissions due Tonight)

We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Misery Loves Company.”…

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Trans Lit Blooms

“Whereas in the past, most trans books were non-fiction, either how-to or memoir books, we’re starting to see novels and short fiction coming from trans authors in North America,” explains…

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Congratulations to All the Pulitzer Winners!

Congratulations to the hardworking writers who won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, especially Rumpus interviewees Adam Johnson and Tom Reiss! Johnson won in the fiction category with his novel The Orphan Master’s Son,…

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Notable New York

Notable NYC: 4/15-4/21

We’re a day behind. We hope you made it through Monday without the sublime guidance of Notable NYC. A (user) error occurred yesterday and all was lost. But all is…

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Natasha Trethewey Gulfing!

Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is flexing her foreign diplomacy muscles in the Persian Gulf for National Poetry Month. On April 24, Trethewey will be participating in a public interview at the Abu…

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