Seven Short Stories About Drones
“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist’s.” This and six other “short stories” (i.e., tweets) about drones by Teju Cole are…
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Beautiful Destruction, a story of graffiti in NYC
“Layering and flow and the strategic, intentional use of rupture are tenets of hip hop’s aesthetic DNA, and I definitely wanted to reflect that in the book.” The Millions interviews Adam Mansbach about…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Meet the oldest pebble in the world. Looks like we’re not getting a Death Star after all. A gloomy series of…
Adobe Bookshop Farewell Party
As Rumpus contributor Peter Orner recently said, “Don’t you all see what we are losing? If this city still has a soul, it’s at Adobe.” San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop is…
Fact and Fiction in The Bell Jar
How much of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is autobiographical, and how much is fictional? Is her unflinching exploration of suicidal depression more meaningful if it’s a record of real life or…
In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry
Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all. Astronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t…
Notable San Francisco 1/14-1/19
This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/14: The Shout, Oakland’s monthly live storytelling event, is back for 2013. This month features five locals telling ten minute true life stories, with…
Nick Cave Monday #18: “Lucy”
Who is Lucy? Nick’s ex-girlfriend? A ballerina? Whoever she was, we all have our Lucy. The woman who died too young. If you don’t have a Lucy yet, be assured,…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Catch up with the Rumpus’s posts from this weekend! “I can’t say that my work never crosses over into my mothering life. Career choices often affect who we are as…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Breathalyzers: no longer just detect blood alcohol content, now they diagnose bacterial infection. Paying respects to coder supreme Aaron Swartz. Levels of…
Talking with Tosches
Nick Tosches’ writing is dark, gritty, and has guts. Tosches has written 18 books, and is best know for his Dean Martin biography, Dino. In a recent Esquire interview by Scott…
Giving Tweets a Home
Geolocation is often used to disclose the location of tweets, Facebook posts, and smartphone photos. Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman track down the GPS coordinates attached to tweets, and take…