Notable New York: 03/04-03/10
Monday 03/04: Ron Silliman and Robert Fitterman read as a part of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. Dia Arts Foundation, 6:30pm, $6. Wonder presents a reading featuring Insert-Blanc Press…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s what we will wear in space. The Onion is not above its own satirizing, which is why it is the best. Shall we now discuss the possible origins of…
NBCC Demonstrates Good Taste
Exciting news: the National Book Critics Circle has recognized two recent Rumpus interviewees with awards! One is Andrew Solomon, whom we interviewed in December. His book Far From the Tree, about…
The Course Syllabi of Famous Writers
Imagine if the authors who created these syllabi for their courses were all teaching at the same school at the same time. “Who’d you get for English?” “David Foster Wallace. I…
Happy Birthday, Ralph Ellison!
Happy birthday to Ralph Ellison, who would have turned 99 today. His fiction was revelatory—Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953—as were his essays on literature, music, and…
“It’s A War Zone Around There”
After a year marked by several horrific mass shootings (on the heels of other years marked by somewhat fewer horrific mass shootings), gun violence has been on all our minds.…
Sometimes Bodies Are Just Bodies
For decades now, sympathetic portrayals of trans people in the media have usually made use of the same phrase: “a man trapped in a woman’s body” (or vice versa). Though…
Off the Page and Into the Microphone
From Novels to Notes is a new blog by journalist Johnny Garcia chronicling songs inspired by fiction or poems. It’s still getting started, but it looks promising: there are already…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yes, I love you Bear in Space. There is no denying. Perhaps you’ve wondered where (certain) insults come from. Science you guys! Mind-melded rats and franken-tadpoles. The NY Times tackles…
Tribute to Newtown
The Newtowner magazine, based in Newtown, CT, is working on a special tribute issue in response to the events of 12/14. They’re looking for submissions of poetry, nonfiction, photography, and art that…
I Internet, Therefore I am!
What defines a person’s existence? A photo ID or their Internet activity? It’s a question that has been losing its irony lately. There’s the news of a traveling couple that…
Classics Made Modern
At The Literarian, Madeline Miller has a great compilation of five classic novels with their parallel modern takes. She’s included March by Geraldine Brooks, which is a reinvention of Louisa…