Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wait, so DO bears hibernate? Everyone loves Charley Harper. This is a fact. Serene Chinese landfills. And now some 1960’s French card game design. The sad case of George Spencer:…
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Double Birthday Time!
Happy birthday to Toni Morrison (who turns 82) and Audre Lorde (who would have turned 79)! It’s hard to overstate the importance of their fight to make the voices of…
Biting the Hand That Stamps Your Library Book
Last week, British children’s author Terry Deary (famous for his Horrible Histories series) declared that public libraries are unnecessary relics of a past age; they cheat authors of their rightful…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Here’s what happened on The Rumpus this weekend: We welcome our newest comics contributor, Yumi Sakugawa! She’s been doing Saturday Rumpus comics for several weeks, but now they’re officially part…
Notable New York: 02/18-02/24
This week in NYC: MONDAY 02/18: The Poetry Project celebrates Alfred Starr Hamilton and the release of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Selected Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Keeping things short for President’s Day. I’m #TeamRoosevelt. You guys, can we just agree that Amazon is at least a little bit the worst? Maybe the universe is inside a…
“I Believed Anita Hill”
“Professor Anita Hill lifted my feminism from my soul and inner circle of cohorts and into a public place.” For their Crush of the Week series, Racialicious highlights Anita Hill,…
Want a free ticket to a private Beck Show?
Our friends at The Believer are giving away ten free tickets to “Beck’s Song Reader” at Sonos Studios next Thursday evening in Los Angeles. Check it out: The event isn’t open…
Death of a Gay Porn Star
“Why do gay porn stars kill themselves” offers an intimate account into Conner Habib’s experiences in gay porn, and examines the cultural misunderstandings and attitudes regarding the recent suicide of…
Zine Anthologies from Small Presses
We all love wiling away the workday on our favorite blogs, but don’t you miss the warm, light heft of a freshly photocopied zine? You may never again make those…
Thoughts on Gender from A “Manic Depressive Nightmare Girl”
Girls rule, etcetera. But men are not afraid of girls. Girls never did and don’t now “run the world,” and if we believe Bey when she sings so, it’s only…
“Music and Words Go Together So Nicely”
If writing and rock music go together like peanut butter and jelly, this New York Times essay is the diagonally cut sandwich bread that delivers them to your taste buds. In…