Defiance: A Literary Benefit to Rebuild Red Hook
Red Hook, Brooklyn has suffered the worst of Sandy. Many homes are still without gas, water or power. It’s quite apocalyptic out there, and many have been displaced and are still…
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“Whither Feminism?”
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jack Halberston discusses the new wave of feminism crashing down upon the 21st century. While introducing his new book, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End…
The 51st State?
What if Puerto Rico becomes a state? What if our flag looks like this? What if we have to change that “fifty nifty United States” song to “fifty-one nifty, fun…
Hot Jazz, No Cash
Online library Internet Archive has a free collection of jazz tracks from the ’20s. What hepcat among us doesn’t remember doing the Charleston to such classics as “dardan2.ogg,” “pretgirl.ogg,” or…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, the astronauts got to vote too. Great terrifying new dinosaur news you guys! On Space Time Foam is your most fun art installation of the week. The (bionic)…
Save Your Breath
Bookslut features an essay by Elvis Bego that’s part passionate defense of short books, part review of Cesar Aira’s The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira. “America, vast in space and in…
Safe Sex Onscreen and Off
Yeah, yeah, Obama, hurray(!) and stuff. What we were all really dying to know is if Measure B would pass in Los Angeles County. The answer is yes, it did,…
A Week in the Life of an LGBT Writer
Lambda Literary feature “The Banal and the Profane” returns with a post by Leon Baham. Each installment involves an LGBT writer chronicling a week of life day by day, and…
The Journalist and the Censor
Eveline Chao has a fascinating longform article up at Foreign Policy about navigating government censorship while working at an English-language business magazine in China. You can’t say “Tiananmen,” but “June…
“True Art is Above False Honor”
For those of you who are trying to make the slow transition from political anxiety back to the relative feather mattress of literary intrigue, The Millions has a list of…
Election 2012: curious what NPR looks like behind the scenes?
Last night, Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton went behind the scenes with NPR to create “live illustrations” of their election coverage. Check out some of Wendy’s NPR illustrations at “Election 2012:…
Spinster Aunt Starts New Blog
Remember “spinster aunt and gentleman farmer” Twisty Faster? Her blog I Blame the Patriarchy, a perpetual source of fantastic writing and radical feminism, has grown quieter and quieter these past…