Winning Typos
At The Atlantic Wire, Jen Doll chronicles the most embarrassing typos and copy-editing errors of the year. Misspellings have really run the gamut in 2012, including but not limited to,…
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First Poet Laureate of L.A.
On Friday, Eloise Klein was declared L.A.’s first poet laureate. Klein has authored seven books of poetry and is the founder of Arktoi Books press. Check out the interview with…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In case you wondering, here is NASA’s official 2012 disclaimer. Today’s awesomest thing: MIT’s transforming robot. The golden age of the bicycle vs the great bicycle menace. Elements of Color…
Emerging Author: Leo Tolstoy
Have issues with classification? Apparently so does Target. Although the film adaptation recently came out, Target guilelessly shelved Anna Karenina in the ‘Emerging Authors’ section. Congrats, Tolstoy, you’ve finally made…
“My Shazam Boobs”
“I celebrated my tits with him, with all of these people. Hot bras, clingy T-shirts, sexy lingerie shopping forays. Must I abandon celebrating my tits in order to avoid mourning…
Thanks, The Chronicle
In their 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, The Chronicle of Higher Education endorsed our Letters for Kids subscription: “1 more thing for kids: The Rumpus’s Letters for Kids project will mail your child a letter…
The Truth About Scientology
I’ve always known that people were curious about the church, but I wish they’d take the time to understand a little more about why people join and what they get…
Watching Rocky Horror with Sylvia Plath
Lucille comes out to her porch. She’s taking the trash out or checking a burnt light bulb or else just looking at the night. I swear it’s like she’s timed…
Best “Best Books of 2012” List of 2012
By now, you’ve probably seen plenty end-of-the-year reading suggestions, but have you seen Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay’s end-of-the-year reading suggestions? It’s huge and rambling and dominated by women and divided…
Followup: Beyond Dora
In response to the New York Times‘ article about the lack of Latino characters in children’s literature, Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of East Harlem bookstore La Casa Azul, compiled a list of…
“I should explain—if nothing else, explanation is my birthright.”
Original short story from the new fiction section at Tablet. Joshua Cohen’s “Fat” tells of adventures in New York City; most notably rushing to be home by dark on Friday…
A Crisis of Hands
One of life’s many struggles is learning to become comfortable with your body–a body you didn’t choose. We’ve all looked in the mirror and wanted to change something. For Rumpus contributor…