The World Without You: “A Painful But Necessary Transformation”
If you enjoyed our interview with Joshua Henkin, may we direct you to this review of The World Without You, featured in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “Henkin’s prose is…
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“best of all, I remember it all”
At The Bold Italic, Bucky Sinister writes about living in San Francisco after getting sober, how he learned to do things without drinking, and his newfound ability to follow through on creative…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very impressive volcanoes. Breakfast around the world. This week in great bridges: the High Trestle Trail Bridge. Just the Czar having a good ol’ time. Actually pretty important: the future…
McSweeney’s Launches Poetry Series
McSweeney’s brand-new poetry series begins tomorrow evening in San Francisco. The inaugural reading will feature writers Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts (a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection), Rebecca Lindenberg, author of Love: An Index,…
Lana Wachowski Receives HRC Visibility Award
Lana Wachowski, director of The Matrix trilogy and the new film Cloud Atlas, received the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award in San Francisco this past weekend. Don’t miss Wachowski’s speech, in which she…
The (Big) Business
“San Francisco’s critically acclaimed independent stand up comedy show takes over Cobb’s – for one night only.” Comedy collective The Business — featuring Mike Drucker, Caitlin Gill, Sean Keane, Alex Koll, Bucky Sinister, and Chris Thayer —…
Allan Gurganus on John Cheever
Over at The New York Review of Books, writer Allan Gurganus gives us a peek into his relationship with John Cheever while Gurganus was but a mere student in his…
Getting the Story Straight
Ever wonder how the New Yorker gets their facts right? Here’s a hint: it’s not the editor. In an excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I would be doing the internet a great disservice if I didn’t show you this baby echidna. Frank Lloyd Wright was not very good at designing dog houses. Very old…
Sinatra of yesterday and today
One cannot help but hear echoes of Gay Talese’s famous Esquire story, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” in Rumpus contributor Chantel Tattoli’s recent article “Frankly Singing.” Tattoli writes: “Two weeks…
Video Performances from “On Hands and Knees”
We hope everyone who was in San Francisco for this year’s Litquake had a lovely time at the many awesome events. For those of you beyond the Bay Area, and anyone…
“On Hands and Knees”: Caitlin Gill
If you missed the Rumpus Lit Crawl event, “On Hands and Knees,” check out our video of Caitlin Gill rocking her stand-up set. Enjoy!