Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to go science! We now have the first ever footage of a living giant squid in its natural habitat. Way to go science! Behold the giant predatory Ichtyosaur. Way…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Claire Bidwell Smith
This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Claire Bidwell Smith. Claire is an experienced therapist, specializing in grief counseling, and the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin/Hudson St.,…
Heroin and Acne
Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell gives a bold account of her struggle with acne and heroin in her recent essay at Salon. Caldwell says: I’ve used drugs to numb myself since…
“I Bet You Could Sell Thousands of Them”
If there’s anything we in the United States know about economics, it’s that all you need to get rich is a stalwart work ethic and an original idea. If you…
Tonight in Brooklyn: THE WORST!
THE WORST! is a hilarious evening of writers, musicians, and other weirdos telling stories about the worst jobs, roommates, and dates they’ve ever had. Tonight’s theme: New Year Nightmares. For…
Maiden Aunt Takes Up Expensive, Time-Consuming Hobby
“How did a woman from a small village in Hampshire come to write six of the most beloved novels in the English language?” Humanities seeks to answer that question with…
The Sexism That Makes Facebook Run
When Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings, a book about the sexist culture she encountered while working at Facebook during its early days, came out, Melissa Gira Grant paid attention. Grant had…
DJANGO BLOWOUT
Today we’re running five essays on Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained. The intention of running so many was not to give Django a disproportionate amount of coverage, but to reflect the controversy and conversation the…
Notable San Francisco 1/7-1/12
This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/7: If 2013 has thus far been short on burlesque, things can change with Hubba Hubba, at Uptown, 9pm. Tuesday 1/8: Take part in…
Legs That Just Won’t Quit
Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane has a piece up at Salon about the curse/blessing of being a stripper with thick legs. A preview: We’d done this before, dancing for a week in…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The Rumpus was packed like a tasty dumpling with features this weekend! Amy Fusellman has an essay about what she learned besides tightrope walking while taking a tightrope-walking class. Your…
The Wishing Tree
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings got her hands on a copy of William Faulkner’s only children’s book, written for his stepdaughter (and a few other children in his life) and…