The Cleverest Boy in the World
There are many things about legendary comic-book writer Alan Moore that are difficult to understand: why he’s turned down so much of the money from film adaptations of graphic novels…
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Write Stuff Interview
SF Weekly’s Write Stuff has done a visual and blunt interview with Oakland poet Tom Comitta. Keep an eye out for his Sugar inspired answer, which is yet another reason…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And now 2012 in microscope images and camera-trap pictures. Popular Mechanics predicts the future! In the here and now though, we have some very important hamburger technology innovation. Here is…
Congratulations, Roxane!
Two months ago, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay said, “hey, when’s it my turn?” Now, her turn has come. Congratulations to Roxane on her two book deals. We can’t wait to read…
“looping through the highlight reel of our lives”
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond reviews Chris Ware’s Building Stories for The New Republic. As a self-proclaimed nitwitted graphic novel critic with no qualifications, Almond beautifully reviews not only the content of Building Stories…
Copyediting George Saunders
How delightful is this style sheet used by the editors of George Saunders’s forthcoming short-story collection? Highlights include the distinction between “pity whoop” (noun) and “pity-whoop” (verb), the hyphenation of “pre-boner,” and…
Notable San Francisco: 12/17-12/22
This week in San Francisco!#$#$@! Monday 12/17: For folks who didn’t do, but are considering doing, things that everyone else did this year, The Dark Knight Rises is showing tonight.…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We ran some really fabulous pieces this weekend that you’ll definitely want to read (or reread). We interviewed Nataly Kelly about the immense weight that rests on the shoulders of…
unicorn rocky mountain oyster
“There was one other mythical bi man in the entire city, but try as I might, I never found him. At the gay bar, I sometimes got called a ‘half-breeder.'”…
“Chance and Accident”
Over at The Smart Set, Morgan Mels writes something of a love letter to Marcel Duchamp, considering shame, chance and Romanticism, and the influences of each in Duchamp’s work. Probably not…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Architizer has your year in buildings. New York as linguistic graveyard. Not entirely dissimilar, The NY Times has a sweet slideshow of 80s subway graffiti. Perhaps you have wondered what…
Lit-Link Round-up
This is going to be a short one–my mom got into a car accident the other day (on my dad’s 91st birthday no less) with my girls in the car,…