Playing with Food
Brock Davis was one of those kids who probably drove his parents crazy during dinner. Davis’ collection of “food art” is playful, weird, and provocative. What we like about his…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science is awesome! Now we can convert urine into brain cells. Behold the Obamadon. It is pretty crazy that there are still 10 living daughters of Union Army Civil War…
New e-book from Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell, Rumpus contributor and author of the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, comes out with “The New Age Camp,” a new e-book from Thought Catalog. Get ready for “a…
This here post is for the Faulkner Fans
Marco Kaye’s “As I Lay Buying” takes Faulkner’s classic backwoods family, The Bundrens, and throws them into a modern Macy’s for some Holiday shopping. What more can we say–it’s funny.…
A Farewell to Cats
Ernest Hemingway fell in love with polydactyl (six-toed) cats after he was given one by a ship’s captain. Now the descendants of his cats live free on the property of his former…
Ode to Silent Spring
“Had we been lied to, not only about pesticides, but about progress, and development, and discovery, and the whole ball of wax?” In The Guardian, Margaret Atwood reminds us of the…
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Today is the birthday of the famous recluse who once wrote: Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come — Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent…
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,…
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,…