Lit-Link Round-Up
The habits of famous (mostly dead) writers. I love Richard Cox, LitReactor, and this list of 10 Awesome Writers You’ve Never Heard of Before. Though I am happy to say…
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The New Sincerity
In a New York Times op-ed that’s been making its way around the internet, Christy Wampole asserts that irony is the ethos of our age. At The Atlantic, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald…
Mary Todd Lincoln: The Controversial First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln was no Jackie Kennedy. Although Mary Lincoln is often portrayed as being consumed by aristocratic airs, she hardly fit in with the upper-class. She spent hefty sums…
Glad We Got That One Sorted Out
Is humankind basically good or basically evil? Or does it vary too widely from person to person to generalize across the whole species? Well, some scientists took a look, and…
Happy Baby Roundup
The Happy Baby Kickstarter campaign has 21 days to reach the $85,000 funding goal. You can make a donation here. ‘Like’ Happy Baby on Facebook! Stephen Elliott talks with a Happy Baby Kickstarter backer, Stacey…
Skip the Forced Family Fun and Volunteer This Thanksgiving
Seriously, this Thanksgiving, would you rather 1) endure awkward conversations with those cousins with whom you have nothing in common, and yet another interrogation about your life choices from your…
“1233. I was happy until I was actually happy at which point I wasn’t happy.”
The Millions muses on translation via Paul Legault’s The Emily Dickinson Reader and the magazine Telephone Journal. Both platforms have created English-to-English translations of classic pieces, through reinventions of childhood games…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off this week, so we better link to 86 years of Thanksgiving Day Parade floats now. Midcentury architecture magazine covers (are great) Beware of…
Getting to Know Thurston Moore, Poet
“It was Moore’s, and Moore’s alone, unique dichotomy of rock star demagogue and unbridled fan of poetry that made his class worth the audit. Scansion, simile, synecdoche―such elements of praxis…
Thanks, The Atlantic
In discussing Kurt Vonnegut’s theory that you’re only allowed to be in love three times in a life, The Atlantic cites and praises our recent interview with Nanette Vonnegut, the late author’s…
New T. S. Eliot Papers To Be Revealed
If you enjoyed reading about T. S. Eliot’s first wife, Vivienne, in Rumpus interviewee Kate Zambreno’s book Heroines, you might be interested to know that Eliot’s second wife, Valerie, recently…
New Readers Report Theme: “Storm Stories”
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Storm Stories.” While…