Lit Crawl: “On Hands and Knees”
If you’re in the Bay Area, join us tomorrow for the Rumpus Lit Crawl event, “On Hands and Knees.” Saturday, Oct 13th, 8:30 – 9:30 pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Chicken Soup for the Hungry
Early in 2013, Chicken Soup for the Soul book publisher will be releasing a line of “nutritious, quality comfort foods” to supermarkets and other food retailers across the nation. The…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. Shower optional: artist documents water balloons exploding on bald women’s heads. Maybe these…
Sympathy for Sale
The Germans have developed a suit that helps medical students understand what it’s like to be old that doesn’t require walking in the snow with only burlap shoes and up…
Kathleen Alcott in San Francisco!
Kathleen Alcott will be at Alley Cat Books next week, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). Join her on Tuesday,…
“Underwear is definitely pants”
Dissecting the lies writers tell themselves, Alexander Chee offers sound advice on how to succeed — or at least succeed in being honest with oneself. “Don’t sit there imagining disapproval…
The Saints Stink
Miranda Popkey of The Morning News on why American football is so attractive and quickly becoming the country’s most watched sport for the wrong reasons. Popkey investigates the realities behind…
Guthrie Still Elusive at 100
Leonard Cassuto of the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the absence of Woody Guthrie in the university because of his political stance, his views on copyright and shying from the…
No Dinos!?
In really disappointing dinosaur news today, an Australian university found that DNA cannot survive more than 6.8 million years and so dashed the dreams of many a 90’s kid. Sadly,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. A paleontologist’s idea of a “nice pet.” Watch out. Some cakes bite back.…
Seeming versus Being
“Ultimately, A Working Theory of Love examines, quite successfully, our semi-delusional approach to interpersonal relationships and contemplates whether the world comes down on the side of seem or be—or if…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. “If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you…