Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known world, new South African cryptic spider. Pendulum Choir is your art installation for the week. Space paradoxes are my favorite kind of paradoxes. You know what…
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A Day in the Journalistic Life
The life of a writer is rarely depicted as glamorous. We do it because we must. But sometimes we also must do other things like eat, and pay for shelter…
Fiction-as-Detroit Conceit
“[W]hy bother trying to attract Starbucks to Gratiot Ave? Let us brew our own, stronger coffee.” At The Millions, Alexander Nazaryan makes an optimistic call-to-action for literature and the publishing…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Giant salamanders are the best suckers of all. Your elevator is segregating you. Look, I know this is venturing way too far into pop-culture, but this article about what happened…
Liberal Arts Roundup
Private liberal arts colleges have been in the hot seat lately. Emory students rallied and protested after their school’s president, James W. Wagner wrote an article commending the 1787 three-fifths…
Sam Lipsyte’s “The Fun Parts” Launch Party at Le Poisson Rouge!
Hey New York! Come out this Friday, March 8th to Le Poisson Rouge for Sam Lipsyte’s “The Fun Parts” Launch Party! The event will feature three Rumpus interviewees: writer Sam…
Experiment with Literature
If you’ve grown up on canonical realist fiction, it can take a while to get used to the taste of experimental literature. But LitReactor’s Cath Murphy, after enduring slander against…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Studying the self-portraits of famous authors (is a thing you could do I guess). Perhaps you’d like to see some infrared images of emperor penguins. 1970s Soviet Futurism yes please…
“Trying to Illuminate the Darkest Places”
Two Rumpus treasures in one…treasure chest? Necklace? Treasury?? Okay, this metaphor didn’t work out, but Thomas Page McBee‘s interview of Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar) did. A small preview: But what…
Keeping the Doctor Away
Though the apples in your local supermarket may seem homogeneous (they are, in fact, clones), wild apples come in a shocking number of sizes, colors, and flavors. Intrigued by their…
Help Vela Celebrate Unsung Women Writers!
It’s rare for female writers to receive recognition when it’s due. In light of International Women’s Day, Vela Magazine is collecting suggestions for its “Great Nonfiction by Women” List. We…
New DFW Books: Both A Good Idea and Not
Both Flesh and Not, the latest posthumous David Foster Wallace book, has been released, and Rumpus pal Andrew Altschul has written an extensively titled essay about it for the Quarterly Conversation. In…