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What VIDA Stats Mean on A Personal Level

This year’s VIDA stats gave us a (depressing) wide-lens view of women’s status in the writing industry, but for a (depressing) close-up perspective, read Deborah Copaken Kogan’s recent essay in The Nation about…

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

An Iranian scientist has (maybe) created a (sort of) time machine. Let’s all explore the world through it’s lowest currencies. Alternatively: the world’s librarians pick their countries best children’s books.…

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Algren, The Movie

Check out the trailer for the forthcoming documentary on writer Nelson Algren, “recipient of the first National Book Award for Man With a Golden Arm, Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Chicago Bohemian’ lover, a Beat writer…

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San Francisco’s Sister Spit comes to Los Angeles!

If you live in Los Angeles, you can see Sister Spit tonight at the RedCat! The event is hosted by Michelle Tea and features singer/songwriter/performance artist DavEnd, writers Danny LéVesque and Ali Liebegott,…

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Karen Russell Shortlisted for an IMPAC

Exciting news! Recent Rumpus interviewee Karen Russell is shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel Swamplandia! Nominations for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award are submitted by public…

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

This has been a really good week for bat links. I am of course legally obliged to report any and all dinosaur baby news. The NY Times looks at the…

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Mark Twain, Poet

Mark Twain has become a Russian doll of surprises, with new works, such as his memoir, being uncovered and rediscovered over a century after his death. While distinguished in the…

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The Next Letter In The Mail: Dobby Gibson

The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Monday, is from poet Dobby Gibson! Gibson is the author of It Becomes You and two Minnesota Book Award winners, Polar…

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Textbooks That Spy

Technology might have made studying and homework faster and easier, but thanks to CourseSmart, a new digital textbook system that tracks students’ reading progress, teachers will now have a way…

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Peter Rock Rocks SF

Peter Rock will be in San Francisco this weekend, reading from his latest novel, The Shelter Cycle. Join him on Saturday, April 13, 7:00pm – 8:00pm at Green Apple Books (506 Clement…

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Three Cheers for 100 Amazing Trans Americans

Here’s a BuzzFeed list that’s definitely worth reading: 100 Amazing Trans Americans You Should Know. They’re artists, educators, activists, and more, and they’re doing great work all over the country.…

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Scandal in the World of Quiz Bowl

“Nerd culture” may be, at this point, thoroughly subsumed into the capitalist mainstream (see: The Big Bang Theory, the explosion of Comic-Con’s popularity, they’re seriously gonna make more Star Wars…

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