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…
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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…
BOMBlog Interview with poet Dean Young
Described as covering “freely floating topics,” the BOMBlog interview with Dean Young disproves discontinuity within its first few moments: “Now is always unprecedented and sudden.” Young talks about his writing process in phrasing that’s as…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan is taking the day off but he’ll be back just as soon as he’s ready to write or read about anything that doesn’t have to do with politics (which…
Migraines, Music, and Drugs: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
NPR Books has a fascinating interview with Oliver Sacks on his new book Hallucinations. An excerpt on hallucinations during migraines: …At least on two occasions, I’ve had a smell —…
Peter Orner Reading Thursday
Bay Area readers, listen up: Rumpus columnist Peter Orner is doing a reading Thursday evening at 5:00 in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library as part of the Story Hour series. Will…
SF’s Fireside Storytelling
Tomorrow is Fireside’s monthly storytelling event at The Jellyfish Gallery in SOMA. The lineup includes Rumpus interviewee Joe Loya, NPR’s Doug Cordell, and former San Francisco mayoral candidate Chicken John. …