Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There has never been a better week to relink to the wind map of the united states. Photographing zoo backdrops. I went to The Big Picture to see if there…
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The other other Borges
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one who skates at the Place de la Concorde on blocks of ice.” A D Jameson at HTMLGiant satirizes Jorge Luis Borges’s…
Notable San Francisco 10/29-11/3
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/29: Matthew Inman of the Oatmeal reads tonight from his latest, How to Tell if Your Cat is Trying to Kill You, at Books…
Notable New York, This Week 10/28-11/4
This week in New York, Sandy is messing with things: MONDAY 10/28: No trains. Everything canceled. Stay safe, New York! TUESDAY 10/30: Fiction Addiction this month features readings by Dani…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s start the week with some awesome book art. Sweden needs your trash. Clearly it is time to test for living in a computer simulation. Perhaps you have been wondering…
Got Plans Tonight?
You do now. Join occasional Rumpus contributors Elisa Gabbert and Sommer Browning as they live-tweet “The Shining,” tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, 6:00 p.m. Pacific. Why don’t I include the…
The Man Behind the Faulkner Estate
Now here’s a nightmare most writers never contemplate: imagine that it’s years after you have died, and joined the pantheon of literary greats in absentia, and are so renowned that…
The Frankenstorm and H.P. Lovecraft
I’d suppose we all need no greater horror story this weekend than the prospect of a Mitt Romney presidency, or of the emergence of yet another Republican who has bizarre…
Donald Hall Says “Thank You” Twice
Donald Hall offers The New Yorker a series of reminiscences, observations and gentle declarations concerning the poetry reading, a beast he has come to know most intimately during his lifetime,…
Is Facebook’s new “feature” extorting small organizations?
Many businesses recently noticed that although their reported “likes” may have increased, only a portion of their posts were actually reaching their followers. Now, in order for organizations to reach…
It Never Hurts To Take A Second Look
Over on The Millions, Thea Lim takes an analytical look at Junot Díaz and his book, This Is How You Lose Her, shedding some light on the reactions it has inspired, from the accolades…