Why Celebrity Gossip Is Actually Kind of Important
Here’s something to look forward to: Anne Helen Petersen’s “Scandals of Classic Hollywood” column, which we blogged about previously, is becoming a book! If you simply can’t wait for the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life’s greatest mystery revealed: sup with owl necks? If you are need of some medieval torture equipment this is your lucky weekend. The harshest rejection is Satan’s rejection. Maybe the…
AWID elects sex worker for the first time
Kay Thi Win has been elected to the International Board of the Association of Women in Development (AWID). Win is a sex worker, advocate, and the chairperson of the Asia Pacific…
SOME GUY’S GIRLFRIEND FUCKED HIM OVER
Tomorrow evening, The Chris Gethard Show will take the stage at Eureka Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest. The title of the show is “Some Guy’s Girlfriend Fucked Him Over.” Here’s why: Our…
Saeed Jones Joins BuzzFeed!
We’re thrilled that Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones is the new editor of BuzzFeed LGBT. Read the just-released BuzzFeed LGBT manifesto, and we’re sure you’ll share our excitement. Another reason to celebrate: Saeed’s…
Book Industry Forecast
Who doesn’t want to validate their decision to purchase an e-book by seeing it in physical form at a bookstore first? At Melville House, Dennis Johnson discusses how the rapid demise…
Fifty Nifty United States with New Names and Equal Populations
The Electoral College’s credibility may have taken a blow a few years back, but Neil Freeman has a plan to fix it: simply redistrict the entire country so that all…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I bet you already read about the Russian family cut-off from the world for 40 years, but did you read about the 23 year long game of tag? Let’s keep…
Zak Raven vs. HIV
Darren G. Davis, author of The 10th Muse and Legend of Isis, two graphic novels with cult followings, is also the creator of Lost Raven, a memoir-style graphic novel about…
The Family Who Fled Civilization to Live in Siberia
This Smithsonian article has been pinballing around the Internet, and for good reason. It tells the story of a team of Russian geologists who went to remote Siberia in 1978 and…
How to Submit
For whatever reason, this austere paper system works better for me than others, which says more about how my mind works than it does about Excel spreadsheets. Maybe I’m projecting,…
And In Some Perfumes Is There More Delight
You know what Ernest Hemingway looked like and what his writing sounded like—but what did he smell like? Inspired by a perfume on Etsy called “Dead Writers,” Book Riot’s Amanda…