Twitter Fiction Festival A Success
Previously, we blogged about Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Twitter mystery. As it turns out, Rumpus contributor and interviewee Scott Hutchins wrote one as well, a San Francisco noir called “The Nanny.”…
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Great Moments in Historical Cuteness
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that Abraham Lincoln grew that iconic beard of his because a little girl asked him to in a letter. “I have…
Are you there, Judy? It’s us, all of us
The Los Angeles Review of Books features a triplet of delicious essays on Judy Blume books and their influence on each author as they navigated the harsh terrain of their…
Notable San Francisco 12/3-12/8
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 12/3: Quiet Lightning is at the Lab for its final audience curated reading performances of the year. Read more on readers and performers here.…
250-year-old Secret Text Decoded
New technological advances have allowed researchers into an ancient world of secret texts that once seemed nearly impossible to decode. Noah Shachtman’s article in Wired, titled “They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you were away from your computer this weekend, here’s what you missed at the Rumpus. Remember when we blogged about the responses Emily Rapp gets when writing about her…
When Schools Use the Police Station as a Principal’s Office
In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal’s office. They call the police, who show up to arrest children…
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…
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…