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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, Lucy will come into your life. Perhaps a few times.…
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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 people, as parents, the same way filmmakers can’t watch a…
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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 affection can manipulate a rat’s DNA. Pollution is a record-breaking…
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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 Raab, Tosches discusses his new book, boozing, opium, poetry, and…
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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 photos of the area where the tweets were uploaded. Jakob…
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Thanks, Fleshbot!
In their Fieldguide to Ashley Blue, Fleshbot cites our interview with the porn actress and author. We love you back!
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The Debate on Confessional Writing
There has been no shortage of criticism in response to Hamilton Nolan’s Gawker post “Journalism Is Not Narcissism.” Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott wrote a recent critique of Nolan’s essay, as did memoirist Jillian Lauren and Rumpus columnist Steve Almond. David Ulin recently…
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On Buying Your Friends
The San Francisco Bay Guardian‘s current cover story is about the culture surrounding Twitter bots that artificially inflate your follower count: who buys them, why, and where you can buy them yourself. The story’s author, Caitlin Donohue, picked up a few…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Kill your bed bugs by taking this pill. The Museum of Math just opened its doors. It’s home to the world’s only L.E.D. foot-touch “math square”. Want to be an astronaut?…
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Juicing With Arthur Miller
“Drugs won’t do the writing for you, but steroids can take a monologue that would have gone to the warning track and knock it out of the park.” Apparently steroids are not just reserved for the athletic. At The Morning…
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A Dolphin With A Reputation
SF Weekly sits down with Malcolm J. Brenner, author of Wet Goddess and ex-lover of a dolphin. It might be one of the most fascinating interviews you’ve ever read. She began doing things like opening her jaws and running her…
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Night Writer Society and the 6-Word Memoir
The Night Writer Society, a new and mysterious group of writers based out of 826 Valencia is hosting its first event on February 5th featuring Larry Smith, creator of SMITH Magazine and the six-word memoir. Participants will spend the evening…