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…
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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…
Poetry For Free
If you just can’t wait until National Poetry Month happens in April, you can start preparing now. Sign up here, and Poetry will send you 10 free copies of their April…
What the death of Barnes and Noble means for suburbia
At The New Republic, Mark Athitakis eulogizes the steady collapse of Barnes and Noble. The store, which for many people growing up in rural and desolate areas provided the only…
The 411 on reading and crying while commuting
Embrace those subway tears, urban commuters! Busses and trains are great places to read, but how do you cope when you’re on a crowded train making limited stops and the…
Thanks, MetaFilter!
MetaFilter linked to “Sick,” Amy Butcher’s essay on friendship, mental illness, and more. We love you back, MetaFilter!
Let A Rumpus Pal Choose Your Next Book
Bookish, the new website that helps you choose and buy books based on input from writers, editors, and publishers, has a post up by Rumpus contributor/interviewee Scott Hutchins. Read it if…