FUNNY WOMEN #99: Modern Vice
We were tired of being good, so we decided to start sinning. We didn’t want to kill anybody or steal anything, so we stuck to modern vice.
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Don’t Worry Too Much About Goodreads, Says Steve Almond
Amazon’s buyout of Goodreads has a lot of people curling their lips in disgust, and Rumpus columnist Steve Almond is among them: “As a reader and writer I find all this…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It turns out ice growing wild in a historic factory building looks pretty neat. io9 has your April Fools Day round-up. Now we can get to the International Space Station…
Shakespeare: Poetic Genius and Capitalist Monster
This puts a whole new spin on The Merchant of Venice: According to this Associated Press article, Shakespeare wasn’t just English literature’s foremost creative visionary; he was also a hardhearted grain merchant…
Stop Reading New Fiction?
It has a provocative headline (“Literary fiction is boring!”), but J. Robert Lennon’s Salon piece about what writers should read is not nearly as simplistic or sensationalist as you might expect.…
“Ooh! A Pencil App!”
“I’m bored. New window!” Treasured Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak illustrates the secret lives of web journalists over on the Paris Review‘s blog. Bloggers, you might want to shield your eyes. It…
Notable San Francisco: 4/1-4/6
Monday 4/1: Word for Word stages a reading of charged, controversial Nathan Englander story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. $10, 7pm, Jewish Cultural Center. Tuesday…
Nick Cave Monday #29: “Avalanche”
Around the year of our Lord 1984, there were fans of The Birthday Party wandering aimless through the streets. Their post-punk gods vanished. But, just like a dude named Jesus,…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Happy Easter, and we hope you found all the eggs that have ever been hidden from you. Our posting schedule was a little light because of the holiday, but we…
Notable NYC: 4/1-4/7
Monday 04/01: Monday night the Poetry Project presents An Evening with Clark Coolidge featuring readings from Coolidge, Peter Gizzi, Marcella Durand, Miles Champion, Ron Padgett, Bill Corbett, Anne Waldman, John…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some infomercial gifs to ease you into the week. I’m not entirely sure what is happening here, but I DO know that I’m Google is my favorite tumblr…
Read My Lips (Or At Least Try To, It’s Pretty Difficult)
For Stanford Magazine, Stanford master’s student Rachel Kolb describes what it’s like navigating the world of the hearing when you were born deaf, with a particular focus on reading lips. As…