FUNNY WOMEN #95: Confessions of a Pet Chimpanzee Attackee
You see, I am a survivor of a chimpanzee attack—an attack by my pet chimpanzee, my darling Bentley—and yes, fine, I suppose you could say he ate my face.
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The Evolution of Language
How did humans learn to talk, anyway? Vervet monkeys use different words (or, at least, “different alarm calls to refer to different types of predators, such as snakes and leopards”)…
“The Failure of the Intended Story”
It’s not every day that The Rumpus finds itself immortalized in animation form. Contributor Yuvi Zalkow was so inspired by his recent interview with Thaisa Frank, he made a fantastic…
Kurt Vonnegut Loved Adobe Books, And You Should Too
Here’s a lovely addition to the ongoing up-again-down-again saga of Adobe Books: Herbert Gold describes Kurt Vonnegut’s last trip to San Francisco, during which the two visited the “eternal no-rent…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And now matching unique editions of Fahrenheit 451 designed alternatively to burn and to never do that. Today’s scariest thing: anaesthesia wearing off mid-surgery! In honor of all this dead…
Women Still Not Equal in Writing World
VIDA, the organization that tracks the status of women in the writing world, has posted their annual count of female writers published in major literary magazines in comparison to male…
Roxane Gay on Selected Shorts
Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay has a short story up on WNYC’s Selected Shorts! The episode summary describes it thusly: The heroine of Roxane Gay’s “North Country” is a young woman…
Tonight: Get Out of My Crotch Reading
This evening, Rumpus columnist Sari Botton, along with Elissa Bassist and Betty MacDonald, will be reading from Get Out of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to the War on Women’s…
PDXX Collective: Read and Submit!
There’s a new website for women writers. The PDXX Collective is a daily dosage of literary feminism, exploring how publishing more women writers can provide more social equality between the genders. Fuck…
Notable San Francisco 3/4-3/9
Monday 3/4: Poet and translator Mary Winegarden discusses her new volume The Translator’s Sister, and her decades working with Russian literature at SF State. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 3/5: The Al-Mutanabbi…
Nick Cave Monday #25: “Abattoir Blues”
Sometimes things get murky in our brains. The depression takes hold. It’s more than melancholy, it’s to the point of absolute despair. “Abattoir Blues” is the title track on the…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We ran some preetttty choice features this weekend. Such as: “Imposter Moon,” a comic by Yumi Sakugawa. And such as: “Object Lesson,” an essay by Amy Botula about the mementos…