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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It’s that time again. Time to round up all the Rumpus weekends. Or the weekend Rumpuses. Or something. This weekend, we featured two super-cool interviews. Saturday’s was a lively discussion with Michelle Meyering, director of programs and events at PEN Center…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important pizza theory. Our grandparents are way smarter than our parents grandparents. The future of security is old-fashioned typewriters. Yes, I still love 19th century automatons and whimsical machines. There would appear to be a brand new language formed…
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All the Longing Left in the Body
“Sorry,” she said as she passed me in the entrance to the women’s room. “That’s my husband in the other stall. Don’t mind him.” She was going back to her car.
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Notable Los Angeles 7/13-7/19
Saturday 7/13: READINGS presents Sara Finnerty, Jillian Lauren, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Michelle Tea. The event is hosted by Rumpus Saturday editor Zoë Ruiz. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe. Sunday 7/14: Roar Shack presents It Takes a Year,…
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Links I Like
This evening, Michelle Tea is participating in my reading series! We’re celebrating Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. Last night I was in bed, reading Getting Pregnant with Michelle Tea articles and a friend told me that a party near Dodger Stadium…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein
I’m quite sure that if I lived when Gertrude Stein did, I would have not enjoyed her person—the pronouncements, the relentless self-promotion, the blatant self-absorption (“I am a genius”). If I lived in her time I probably, like so many…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Michelle Meyering
Michelle Meyering is a whirlwind of energy and a fixture in LA’s literary scene. She was named a 2013 “Face to Watch” by the Los Angeles Times
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The New York Comics Symposium: N.C. Christopher Couch
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights from 7 to 9 PM in New York City. Presentations vary weekly…
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Conversational Pointers from 150 Years Ago
Though these tips for being a good conversationalist are reprinted on The Art of Manliness, they apply to any speaker regardless of gender. What’s truly surprising about them is that they were published in 1875 but are still, for the…
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The Greatest American Novel
The Millions “asked nine English scholars to choose one novel as the greatest our country has ever produced.” The results span a wide range subjects, authors, and time periods. Most you’ve heard of, a few you haven’t, but all of them…
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On the Rocks
There was a lightness to the way the waves batted me around on the stones, the lightness of a cat playing with a mouse it was about to kill.