Learning to Truly Show Up
At the NYT Sunday Book Review, Cheryl Strayed reviews Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir, The Longest Way Home. “If I had to cut out the heart of this book, that’s where I’d…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Now let’s take a look inside mausoleums. Thor’s Hammer is a pretty bad ass name for a space project. Let’s take a look at food through an electron microscope. The…
Art Textbooks, Sans The Art
Students of the Ontario College of Art and Design have begun petitioning after the University has required them to buy a $180 art textbook. It’s not uncommon that students are…
Davy Rothbart in The NYT
Recent Rumpus Interviewee, Davy Rothbart, caught up with the NY Times during his current tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of FOUND magazine and his new memoir My Heart is an Idiot.…
The Art of The Hobbit
It turns out J.R.R. Tolkien also had a knack for doodling. While he wrote The Hobbit, he drew several illustrations, ten of which were included in the first printing of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This the world we live in you guys! Swedish doctors announce first mother-to-daughter womb transplant. The scariest ghost of all is the one-legged umbrella ghost. Mount Everest is getting deadlier.…
Friends Of The San Francisco Public Library: Call For Poets and Annual Big Book Sale
September is a big month for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Currently, they are looking for local poets to submit their work for Poets 11, the fourth annual…
“Do Take Every Opportunity to Tell ‘The Army Story'”
“Here are some of the things you need to know.” Gooding handed Pilley a card, laminated to slip smoothly into and out of his wallet, with a bulleted list of…
FUNNY WOMEN #85: Baby Logic
On the South side of Tucson near the Samsonite factory you’ll see a woman who’s usually naked except for a long T-shirt.
Nudists do it better?
Carolyn Kellogg at LA Times Books asks: Is creativity better in the nude? “Could being unclothed help all artists make better art? There are people who live their lives as…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are ready to start taking pictures of dark matter. Which is important because maybe the warp drive will be here soon! Puffer fish are the tortured artists of the…
“The Cost of Being a Kid in a Classic Adventure Novel”
Brent Cox, writer of the column “Adjusted for Inflation” on The Awl, investigates the inflated cost of adventuring like some of our favorite young-adult heroes. The premise is this: “Let’s…