Sex in the CIA
Reuel Gerecht’s article “Spooky Sex: Inside the Randy Culture of the CIA” explores the history of sex in the CIA and why American culture is quick to condemn and punish…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome back to the week, here is some deep sea footage. On the officially sanctioned haircuts of North Korea. There is a part of me that wants to hate this,…
“a better, funnier form of commencement wisdom”
Trop Magazine is throwing a writing contest. The Trop Short Fake College or High School Class President Commencement Address contest is an opportunity to write in the wisest, most bombastic, most…
Upcoming Events featuring Jerry Stahl
Hey, Bay Area! Next week, Rumpus contributor Jerry Stahl is performing at two events you won’t want to miss. February 27th, 7 pm at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, Jerry will be reading from his…
Ode to Orlando Cruz
The Rumpus’s Self-Made Man, Thomas Page McBee has an eloquent personal essay on BuzzFeed about Orlando Cruz, the first active boxer to come out as gay. In the macho world of…
Emotionally Grammatical
Yuka Igarashi of Granta wrote an introspective piece on the trappings and fussiness of copyediting. The presence of the unedited, the wrongfully edited, and the misspelled can be infuriating to…
Small Press Love Fest
If you’re in the Bay Area and want to show some love for indie writers, come to the Small Press Love Fest at Alley Cat Books tomorrow! Twelve writers from…
Black Writers, Non-Black Readers
It is technically no longer what Carleen Brice calls “National Buy a Book By A Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month,” but Black History Month seems…
And in This Corner…The Emancipator!
Previously, we blogged about how Abraham Lincoln grew his trademark beard partly because of a letter from a little girl. As it turns out, that’s not the only surprising biographical…
“I’ll wait while they read it”
There is much more to Truman Capote than just being the man behind Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. Beyond the slow, warbling flamboyant character that has been portrayed…
Cyber Stalking Really Is That Bad
Caleb Crain over at The Nation digs in deep to James Lasdun’s new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, the seemingly terrifying story of his “persecution on the internet by a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
With all this talk about Argo this weekend, so this is probably a good time to link to Jack Kirby’s lost original sketches for the actual thing. Oh hello there,…