The Next Letter in the Mail: Jason Novak
The next Letter in the Mail, going out next Friday, is from Jason Novak! As head illustrator for the Rumpus, Jason has created many of the site’s most memorable and…
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Why You Can’t Take the “Porn” out of “Gay Porn”
When a community college in a small New York town hired Rumpus pal Conner Habib to speak about sex and culture for a campus Sex Week, he was psyched. After all,…
Get Out of My Crotch! Reading/Signing
If you live in the Bay Area and have forgotten whose crotch to get out of, have we got a reminder for you: a reading and book-signing of Get Out of…
RIP Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
We’re saddened by the news that novelist and poet Chinua Achebe passed away today. Here are just a few conversations from his long and impacting legacy: In a 2009 interview with…
The Rumpus at The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation has featured The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Camille Guthrie on their blog this week! Thanks, Poetry Foundation, we love you back!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyone loves translation errors in foreign airports. The future is filled with unignorable advertisements. Who wants to take a trip to the Blue Planet Aquarium with me? Mapping the (earliest…
Sounds of Leigh Newman’s “Still Points North”
“The story was there in the music, down to the epilogue.” Leigh Newman’s memoir, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, gets a unique treatment…
Utne Media Award Nomination!
We have some good news, folks. We’ve been nominated as one of four finalists for the 2013 Utne Media Award in the category of Best Writing! Presented by the editorial staff of Utne…
Radio Ambulante en inglés Coming Soon!
Join members of Radio Ambulante‘s first-ever English broadcast next Monday on KALW! Daniel Alarcón, executive producer, explains the fresh perspective of Ambulante’s mission: We begin from the premise that political boundaries…
R.I.P. Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, natty dresser, accomplished traveler, hater of Daylight Savings Time
A wildly entertaining obit from the Biloxi Sun Herald: He despised phonies, his 1969 Volvo (which he also loved), know-it-all Yankees, Southerners who used the words “veranda” and “porte cochere”…
“Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story”
Vaguely reminiscent of our very own Letters in the Mail, Michael Kimball’s new book, Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) reinvents memoir in a way that would have Montaigne…
Alphabetical Straightjacket: Future Dictionaries
“For most of its life, the dictionary has been limited by alphabetical order. That was the default way to navigate through the text … so if you wanted to see…