Protecting Possum Man’s Hard Drive
What do you do with a loved one’s letters, photos, and journals when they pass away? What about their emails, online accounts, and computer files? In an essay at Locus…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s theme is “things Dan finds neat”. This 1930s illustrated guide to hypothetical alien life is my favorite thing today. This story about the official Chinese newspaper not getting that…
Everybody Loves a Good Looking Book
There might be some light at the end of the tunnel for independent bookstores. At NPR Books, Lynn Neary discusses the rising popularity of pretty, hardcover books and their power…
How to Talk to Mothers of Dying Children
If I wrote about my son in a sentimentalized, cloying, tragic way, perhaps I’d be accused of a woman who writes “silly little stories” instead of epic American novels that…
“A Humiliated Boy’s Idea of Manhood”
What do Raymond Chandler’s protagonists have in common with hip-hop artists? At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates investigates: “I’ve had the privilege of reading The Big Sleep, between bouts of dabbling…
Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds
In case you missed it last weekend on KCRW, Rumpus pal Richard Park’s radio drama “Wayne Coyne’s Human Head Shaped Tumor” is now available at your listening convenience. The show…
Peter Orner Reading Thursday at Booksmith
If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Rumpus columnist Peter Orner‘s reading at Booksmith this Thursday to celebrate the paperback release of his novel Love and Shame and Love.…
“Teenage Girls Aren’t Pining for Roman Polanski”
After Chris Brown’s inventively profane online spat with comedian Jenny Johnson and his subsequent departure from Twitter, the public is left to wonder once again just how Brown’s actions fit…
Police Log Comics: The Book!
Rumpus contributor Owen Cook’s Police Log Comics will be coming out soon in book form. The book is a 34 page black and white, edition of 200 with a hand colored cover. Here’s…
Capote Fans’ Prayers Answered
Buried treasure has been unearthed at the New York Public Library: six unpublished pages of Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers. They’re from a chapter called “Yachts and Things,” and…
Method Actors
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” Easy enough for E. B. White to say, but how do…