[Male] Trouble
Berlin will be hosting a conference discussing the changing roles of men, titled “Men’s Policies: Contributions to a Gender Equitable Society.” German Family Minister Kristina Schröder explains her reasoning for hosting…
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“What’s Eating Jami Attenberg?”
This month’s Rumpus Book Club author and contributor Jami Attenberg got some love over at Interview Magazine today. In “What’s Eating Jami Attenberg?”, the writer talks shop about her latest novel, The Middlesteins, and…
“It’s Not A Zero Sum Game”
“I think in general writers are pretty nice to each other. And it’s not a zero sum game. I think that people understand that there’s always room for another good…
Notable San Francisco 10/22-10/27
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/22: Free comedy in North Beach at Melt the Mic, featuring Lynn Ruth Miller, the “poster girl for growing old disgracefully.” Free, 8pm. Melt…
Notable New York, This Week 10/22-10/28
This week, NYC is full of big names: MONDAY 10/22: Mark Z. Danielewski reads The Fifty Year Sword in a staged dramatic presentation accompanied by live, original music from Christopher…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey, so, uh, Science is totally reading your dreams and ready to feed old people your blood now. Get ready for a new tallest building, west coast. I can’t believe…
A Close Look at Solitary Confinement
Mother Jones features a gripping story by Shane Bauer, who in 2009 was apprehended on the Iraqi border and imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison in Iran for 26 months, 4 of…
A Responsibility to the Classics
We’ve all got those books we’ve been meaning to read. Whether we heard about them yesterday, or saw them in a bookstore window a couple of months ago, or we…
Amanda Davis Award
McSweeney’s is accepting submissions for their Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. “This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is always a good day to discuss spontaneous combustion. Now let’s talk about the weather on Uranus (there are no need for sophomoric jokes, also what’s up with all…
Amanda Todd and Myths of the Internet Age
At the New Yorker, Rumpus Saturday editor Michelle Dean writes about Amanda Todd, cyber-harassment, outed Reddit moderator Michael Brutsch, free speech, and the idea that cyberspace would offer a “bodiless”…
“not asking for permission to be human”
The Millions interviews Cheryl Strayed about grief, Sugar, rejection, setting boundaries, and much more. “That’s what authority is. When you’re actually writing from that deepest place within you, if you…