Some Things To Remember While You’re Writing
“There is no shame in writing slow. Your writing takes as long to develop as it takes. Writing is not a race.” Click through to read this and other gentle…
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Modern Farmer: call for submissions
Think Old MacDonald needs a redesign? Modern Farmer is a print quarterly and website devoted to the people, policy, animals, plants, and technology around farming and food. And they want…
Flood the Art Market: Hurricane Sandy Benefit Party
Hey, New Yorkers! Tonight, January 28, from 5:00 to 9:30pm, the Cristin Tierney Gallery is having an art party/silent auction to benefit artists affected by Hurricane Sandy. Over 100 pieces…
Vive Le Hashtag!
The French Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologisme has spoken: from now on, France’s government will not use the word “hashtag.” Instead, official government documents will substitute in the…
Notable San Francisco 1/28-2/1
This week in San Francisco, rejoice, for many staples of the literary city have returned for their first shows of 2013 Monday 1/28: Lit Slam,the monthly, live performance-based poetry anthology…
Nick Cave Monday #20: “Henry Lee”
Today we learn a valuable lesson. If you have a girlfriend, but you are in love with another girl and you tell your girlfriend that this other girl is way…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Need to catch up on Rumpus features from this weekend? We’ve got you covered. “I evaded capture and the result became six month’s worth of daily mail: false reports, found…
The Science of Silent Reading
In a New Yorker piece about how women became readers, Joan Acocella describes the moment St. Augustine saw “his mentor, Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, reading without moving his lips”: “His…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important question: what do astronauts eat? Furthermore, what do they listen to to pump them up in the morning? As long as we are talking about space, the weather on…
A trip to The Wilde West
When Oscar Wilde visited America, he met with writers like Walt Whitman and Henry James. But during his trip, his playful quips that many of us have come to love,…
Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf!
Few writers made greater contributions to literature in the 20th century than Virginia Woolf. Woolf always brought fresh style and perspective to her work, such as the stream of consciousness…
Books and Kickstarter
Thinking about launching your book on Kickstarter? Writer Seth Godin has chronicled his experience with his own book project on Kickstarter and calls it an “experiment in publishing.” Godin says:…