Notable New York: 2/11-2/17
This week in NYC: MONDAY 02/11: Swoon! The Recital is a new reading series that is a throw-back to the days when we memorized a bit of Beowulf in Old…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sup with you, red elephants? This week in meat based Americana art… The Japanese word for unread books and other untranslatable words. On dragons, pterosaurs, and 17th Century fakes. Meanwhile,…
Burma Nurtures Literary Tradition with International Festival
If Jon Nickell’s essay “Into the Tiger’s Lair” piqued your interest about Burma, you might be interested to know that the often isolated country with abundant censorship regulations just held…
A chat with Karen Russell
Check out Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman’s recent interview with Karen Russell. Russell and Oatman discuss her Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel Swamplandia!, as well as topics ranging from the imagination, vampires, and…
The Weird, Sad, Beautiful Lives of “Wayward Authors”
Writers aren’t exactly known for taking the road more traveled by, and the authors profiled in Andrew Shaffer’s Literary Rogues are no exception. There’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s proclivity for opium, Gustave…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Codex Seraphinianus is a good way to start any day. Hey, all mammals, meet your great-great-great-great-great-great-etc grand-rat-thing. This dang tick wants you to stop eating meat I guess. ROCKET…
New Readers Report Theme: “Broken Promises”
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Broken Promises.” If…
Joshua Mohr and Susan Steinberg Book Party (Tonight!)
Bay Area, get ready for an evening of art and comedy! Featuring Joshua Mohr, reading from his new novel, Fight Song! Susan Steinberg, reading from her new short story collection, Spectacle!…
“My Parasite”
Ploughshares reviews Gina Frangello’s short story “My Parasite” for their “Best Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week” series. “Perhaps what is most important is that Frangello’s characters are…
An Ode to Anne Sexton
How could one resist such a title as Bitches and Sad Ladies? Rowan Hisayo Buchanan writes a Last-Book-I-Loved-esque piece in Tin House, musing on the often smoothed over, simplified statuses of women and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important news: now there is a monopoly cat. Our new closest best chance for life is 13 light years away. Why wouldn’t you want to look at pictures of…
Who is really your professor?
Who started the rumor that every university teacher should be called “professor”? The Billfold is here to refute the misconception with a list of cold facts on the labor practices…