Other
-
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 purchase advance tickets just make a contribution to the Happy Baby…
-
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 on the American Dream, and although the series was shot…
-
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 aesthetically charming work of cartography. The project demonstrates a “tight…
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s true! Rich people will be able to walk on the moon pretty soon. It is important sometimes to celebrate the awful parts of London. Behold the snowflake! Children’s games and toys stripped of colors are pretty fascinating. And now,…
-
Little House in the Big Woods
If figurines were awarded for completing twentysomething life-experience clichés, I have been angling for the entire set: the search for myself in central European beer halls; the move west to try growing up with the country; graduate school in New…
-
Thriller Education
At Words Without Borders, B.J. Epstein expounds upon the culture of crime novels, its covert international influence and the diversity of fear. She also continues the necessary conversation of why Anglophones are relentlessly intimidated by translated literature. Why are English-language…
-
Anticipatory Plagiarism
“Ultimately, as a reader and a writer, I find hope in resistance, in the very act of writing against this culture–even when it is without ‘the old excitement of creation’…” Suzanne Scanlon, Rumpus pal and author of Promising Young Women, talks about anticipatory…
-
Three Cheers for Lit Mags!
And three cheers for LaTanya McQueen’s paean to them on The Missouri Review‘s blog. Her description of losing hours in bookstores among copies of Tin House and Conjunction will no doubt ring true to many of you: We’d come to a story we…
-
Re-examining the “Dysfunctional Pleasure” of Eating Disorders
That the Ironman participant may be as vain or as emotionally distressed as a freely directed exerciser becomes irrelevant, because the Ironman race, like a Thanksgiving feast, takes place in the presence of many others pursuing the same extreme pleasure. It…
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Georgian kindergartens are cooler than yours. Incidentally, every day is a good day to revisit crazy Soviet architecture. Old plant anatomy charts (are neat). James Cameron presents: giant crustaceans and maybe an Alzheimers cure. And now all the vintage toy…
-
Repeal Day, Writer Style
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol. In other words, on this day in 1933, booze became legal once more in the United States. Lift a glass with these pairings of…
-
Young Brooklyn Artists Keep it Fresh
The fresh eyes and perspectives of young artists keep the art world from stagnating, and Brooklyn is a hotbed for these up-and-coming artists. The L Magazine interviews some young Brooklyn artists about their accomplishments, experiences living in Brooklyn, and what…