What’s the Deal With Seinfeld’s Dedication to His Craft?
The ’90s were so saturated with Jerry Seinfeld’s brand of humor that it’s easy to think of him as hacky. He’s not.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Cofffee
And what, pray tell, does 2013 hold in store for outer space? It’s always exciting to consider what should have just become public domain. Did I already link to these…
Free Books Still Rad
Rumpus interviewee/contributor Scott Hutchins on the importance of libraries: “I’m from a town with no bookstore, so there would have been no option for books except for the library. The…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s good to be back, I hope you’ve all made it safely to this side of the temporal divide. 2012 in science and bad science. Meanwhile, what are the guiding…
Goodreads Did Really Well in 2012
Goodreads has an end-of-the-year infographic that can only be described as nifty. Visually represented stats range from the book with the most popular quote of 2012 (The Fault in Our…
Writing in the Margins
Here’s a different kind of year-end book list: for the New York Times, Sam Anderson looks back at the notes he left in his reading material during 2012. Have you scribbled…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Ring in the new year with these Rumpus interviews from the weekend! There’s an interview with writer/director Craig Zobel about his movie Compliance, a fictionalized version of real-life series of events in…
Snow Angels
Flavorwire has a collection of photos of authors frolicking in frozen weather. Neil Gaiman’s dog has a weird leash, while Hemingway looks just jaunty as hell.
Man Is Born Free And Everywhere He Is Being Pranked
You probably know Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the Enlightenment-era philosopher whose writings on the concept of the social contract helped ignite the French Revolution. What you may not know is that…
“The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death”
If this holiday season has filled you with a few too many warm fuzzy feelings, you can banish them instantly with this longform piece about freezing to death. Putting the…
War Paint and Purse Pistols
She floated above my desk with a grave, almost murderous look, war paint on her cheeks, blonde braids framing her face, the braids a frolicsome countertone to her intensity. The…
“The Audience Is Performing the Art”
“If this was a blog post I wouldn’t have read it; if this was a video I wouldn’t have watched the whole thing, but because this was a game I…