Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
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…
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Literary Love/Death Match
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…
The Malleable Memory
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…
Notable San Francisco 2/11-2/16
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…
Nick Cave Monday #22: “Jubilee Street”
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…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
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…
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…
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…