No teenager wants to listen to their parents’ music. For Martin Douglas, that music was hip-hop, so he gravitated toward the world of grunge and indie rock. The only problem:…
According to his website, Matthew Picton is interested in “humanising the city by deconstructing the clean, uncompromising aesthetic of the cartographic city plan and imbuing it with the unique history…
You’re a reasonable reader. You like the aesthetics of an old-fashioned paper-and-glue book, but you’re not averse to turning the virtual pages of an e-reader either. If that description sounds…
Books sales cover only 50 percent of Graywolf’s expenses, which is why they are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to build a new and much improved website.…
This just in: The Japanese are better at clearing snow than you. Yep, the dinosaurs died exactly like we thought they did. The internet is running out of memes. Churches…
For our LA buddies in need of plans for Valentine’s Day/just another Thursday night, check out Rumpus contributors Kyle Kinane and Melissa Chadburn in the inaugural Los Angeles Literary Death Match. The event…
What if you discovered that some of your richest childhood memories were actually fabrications? According to Oliver Sacks, research suggests that some of our most vivid memories may not have…
I’m to be his guide in the mountains of Kirkegaard, W. says. His sherpa. I’m to carry his things. What should he bring? His learning, W. says. His years of study…
Monday, 2/11: Story Farm presents six award winning authors and their stories for a night of creative nonfiction. With Tamim Ansary, Mac McClelland, Nancy Mullane, Peter Orner, Mary Roach and…
Goth girls everywhere will soon breathe a collective sigh of relief causing a variance in the Earth’s orbit. We have been waiting since 2008 for a new Bad Seeds record…
If you didn’t catch them already, you’ll want to see the two awesome features we ran this weekend. First, Antonia Crane interviews Jill Soloway, writer, producer, and director, about her…