Pussy Riot Jailhouse Interview
“We couldn’t even imagine that the authorities would be so dumb that they would actually legitimize our influence by arresting us. Sure, Tsentr E tried to intimidate us by tailing…
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FUNNY WOMEN #86: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis
Did Steve Harvey's bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man resonate with you? Then you'll LOVE its nature-inspired spinoff, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis.
READINGS at the Pop-Hop Shop
If you’re in Los Angeles, head over to the Pop-Hop Shop in Highland Park on Wednesday, September 26th for READINGS, hosted by Rumpus contributor Zoe Ruiz. The event will feature…
“My algorithm told me to arrest this man!”
The Wall Street Journal reviews Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, by Christopher Steiner. “In the mid-1970s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT railed against depriving humans of their capacity…
The Rumpus Loves 826
826 Valencia’s upcoming quarterly anthology of excellent student writing will feature a foreword by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald, along with cover art and illustrations from artist and Rumpus contributor…
The real Tom Sawyer was a San Francisco Fireman
Not to mention a Mission Street Saloon owner, civil servant, and hero. The Smithsonian Magazine reports on a real-life Tom Sawyer who was one of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) drinking…
“This is What the Depression Sounded Like”
Aldo Leopold, ecologist and author of Sand County Almanac took such detailed notes each morning from his back porch that researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created his “resurrected soundscape” with digital…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I guess it’s getting to be that time of year again, here are the Royal Observatory’s picks for space photos of the year. The internet was invented so I could…
Two Dollar Radio launches Frequencies
“Scheduled to publish new volumes every Spring and Fall, Frequencies is a journal imprint of Two Dollar Radio that aims to champion artful or creative non-fiction that aggressively asserts the…
“Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?” No.
Roxane Gay on Vagina: “It is also troubling that so much of womanhood is reduced to the vagina and it’s intersection with virile men. One of the many things feminism…
“The question is no longer should the way artists and educators operate change, but how?”
Full Stop has launched a new series, Teaching in the Margins, to highlight and explore arts education. They will be asking “novelists, poets, educators and academics about their views on…
Notable San Francisco: 9/24-9/29
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 9/24: Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass all week with bike, commuter, and social activism focused events all week. Tuesday 9/25: Inside Story…