The Right to Bear Tacos
What would you do if you happened to witness a car crash that injured no humans but mortally wounded a black bear? If you’re Jackson Landers, you finish the bear…
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When Fiction Won’t Let You Lie to Yourself
Why do we incorporate our personal lives into works of fiction? And how do we know when to stop? In a post for the New York Times‘s “Draft” series, “about the…
Scout’s Honor!
Joshua Mohr has released a book trailer for his forthcoming novel, Fight Song. (It was filmed here at The Rumpus offices!) You can read the Rumpus interview between Mohr and Michelle Haimoff, and mark your…
Intimate Writer Portraits
At Imprint, check out Joshua Landsman’s “Writers I Have Loved” project, where he has illustrated a variety of authors in a beautiful diary format. Each drawing is accompanied by a…
“Migration is beautiful, and it is inevitable”
Oakland artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez is the narrator of the new video series Migration Is Beautiful. The films feature artists and advocates and their plights in fighting for the dignity…
Better Living through Storytelling
One of the hardest parts of developing artificial intelligence, writes Frank Bures for Poets & Writers, is trying to teach computers causality: how and why one thing follows from another. Humans…
Literary Happy Meals
In England, young McDonald’s customers will no longer be receiving toys with their Happy Meals. Instead, they will be bestowed with books! McDonald’s is working in conjunction with the National…
Netiquette from the early days
Been baffled recently by someone’s online behavior? At Full-Stop, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim offers advice drawn from the book published by those who pioneered the internet in 1995. A tip from the document:…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Hate any and all liquid? This new superhydrophobic spray will make you completely moisture-free. Don’t give an elephant LSD. Meet albatross,…
“The Pleasure and the Purpose of Writing”
All class is a privilege, even the lowliest have a vernacular that is all their own that they use to keep people in and keep people out. I like to…
Thanks, Flavorwire
Flavorwire highlighted Timothy Leo Taranto’s “Literary Puns” this week. Go here if you missed the unusual collection of writers-turned-caricatures. Thanks, Flavorwire, we love you back!
A Library Without Books
This should be interesting: a judge in San Antonio, Texas, is opening a library without books. Or rather, there will be books, but only digital ones, which patrons can read…