Notable New York, This Week 12/3-12/9
This week in New York: TUESDAY 12/4: The Folding Chair’s reading series this month features Anthony Tognazzini, Matthew Goodman, and Robin Beth Schaer. 61 Local, 7pm, free. THURSDAY 12/6: Blake…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad Kids Jokes is the best thing that happened to me this weekend. Perhaps you’d like to see one of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing prompts? It is terrifying when wax museums…
Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton has teamed up with Maria Popova (of Brain Pickings) to illustrate selected excerpts from Susan Sontag’s diaries. The artwork is available on Etsy as an 11×14 print on heavy cotton…
thank goodness for the authors
“You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead—to which I say: Pull up a chair, friend.…
Throwback Art
Nostalgic for the 90’s art scene? Specifically 1993? Mark your calendars for The New Museum’s exhibit “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set Thrash and No Star,” a title borrowed from the Sonic…
Written Word as Basic Need
Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and countless other authors, intellectuals and humanitarian efforts, such as Libraries Without Borders, agree: books should be a part…
Great Novels with Bad Endings
How many love affairs have you had with novels that ended abruptly, poorly, without cause or the “proper” resolution? You finish the last word, your arms hang limp, the novel…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So yes, NASA probably DID find organic materials, but not on the planet we thought. Hurray for pinball based art! Planned cities seen from space. Lots and lots of old…
Tweet to Death
Check out Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Brooklyn Twitter mystery. You have until the end of today to help decide if the death in question was a “#suicide, #homicide, or an…
Gilgamesh Has It Goin’ On
This past spring, Russ Kick edited the first volume of The Graphic Canon, which intertwines works of literature ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to A Picture of Dorian Gray…
“Stand in the rubble of your life and wait”
“The fact that a marathon was still going to be held on this borough, when we were still finding bodies in the marshes surrounding the area where the marathon would…