Notable San Francisco: 12/10-12/15
This week in SF! The campaign to film-ify Happy Baby, authored by Stephen Elliott aka Mr. Rumpus, is in its final stretch. Check out the promo and chip in here,…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
We bet you’ve never seen nudes like this!
Asger Carlsen’s nudes look so real at first you might think they are naked contortionists with missing appendages posing for the camera. Carlsen’s nudes are twisted, sometimes literally; and yet,…
when history is narrative-driven
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jim Hinch reveals the holes in Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve. Hinch asks how a book which repeatedly gets its facts and insinuations wrong could…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
How did you spend your weekend? Curled up with The Rumpus? If not, here’s what you’ll want to catch up on: It is not an exaggeration to say that Lauren…
“At a word’s notice!”
Have you ever snuck up to your bookshelf and pretended to see through a stranger’s eyes, imagining what someone who didn’t know you would gather from the titles perched there,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I imagine you’d like to read Margaret Atwood’s thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. Slate loves space colony art too! Yes, but do they love Eastern European space…
When Publishers Had A Sense of Humor
There was once a time when we thought of the book industry as less under siege. In that time, people were more prone to pulling the legs of the powers…
“Don’t Do It For Money”?
This week an article about the 1962-63 newspaper strike was everywhere. The Vanity Fair piece is very good, pointing out that the strike opened up career possibilities for many of…
A reading list to swoon over
As we mentioned earlier this week, The Millions has unleashed their A Year In Reading series, providing you the perfect road map for your continuing literary journey! If that wasn’t…
Happy Baby in Los Angeles (Tonight!)
A Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus! December 7th, at Fix Coffee, 2100 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. To…
A Different Breed of Family Portraits
Check out Slate’s new photo blog Behold and its showcasing photographer, Leon Borensztein, who has a humorous and unsettling portfolio of portraits. Originally from Poland, Borensztein’s portraits are a sarcastic take…
A Literary Map of the US
At More Intelligent Life, have a look at Geoff Sawer’s Literary Map of the United States, in which he has crammed more than 200 authors, poets and cartoonists into an…