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Weekend Essay Roundup
It’s officially autumn! We welcome you to think about scarves, soup, and playing in giant piles of leaves, but maybe after reading the three great essays we published this weekend first: Matthew Salesses tackles singular models of racial identity—and so…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Despite how it may feel a lot of the time, people appear to be getting smarter. This week in alarmism: if you have a poor sense of smell you are probably a psychopath! Jeez ladies of 1962, why don’t you…
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SATURDAY RUMPUS ESSAY: The Tyranny of “Brooklyn”
Tomorrow is the Brooklyn Book Festival, which means everyone in Brooklyn will gather in auditoria and listen to writers speak.
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Peeking Into Spy Tunnels
mental_floss presents brief histories of five spy tunnels. Tunnels were a major spy tool through World War II, but most of these underground projects ended up compromised by double agents, or being abandoned all together due to the difficulty and price…
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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 put the knife, on that boy in the snow on…
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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 future is all about how people walk. I lead you…
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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 required to buy texts for their classes, but this particular…
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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. Rothbart has become well known for his role as creator…
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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 the book. In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the…
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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. Let’s take a look inside opera houses and prisons. Consider…
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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 poetry contest that aims to find poetry from all 11…
