BOMB’s Poetry Smackdown
As part of Lit Crawl NYC, BOMB Magazine presents: Poetry Smackdown this Saturday at 7pm at Dempsey’s Pub (61 2nd Avenue). Twelve poets will compete in a read-off to win…
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How Books Clubs Went Indie
“Forty-something Betsy Birdsall jokes that she likes the Rumpus group because it enables her to hang out in her bathrobe and slippers while pretending she has friends. She says Elliot…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Technology can be rad: 3-D printed bald eagle beak! Maybe levitating drugs in zero-g will make them more effective (tell me something I don’t know, scientists). The best way to…
NYC: Writers Reading Other Writers
This Saturday, our friends over at The Believer (and Gigantic) are hosting Writers Reading Other Writers as part of NYC Lit Crawl. The event will feature work by Rumpus contributors Justin Taylor and…
Happy Roald Dahl Day!
The Guardian has put together a very awesome link round-up of Dahl-inspired activities for the writer’s birthday today, including pictures of Dahl’s childhood and family, the man himself reading the…
The (Imagined) Woman Reader and Male Anxiety
“The Contemporary Male Novelists fear the Female Reader is no longer willing to interpret rampant misogyny as searing self-portraits of mangled masculinity, but rather as just more misogyny and who…
Fail Better
“Then again, you might not be the funny type. How about making the rejection letter poignant, depressing, or even hurtful? Push the envelope. Your audience is a bunch of bored…
Psychopathic Presidents
PsychCentral covers a study that claims presidential candidates benefit from psychopathic behavior. It is purported that traits such as “fearless dominance” can help the Chief lead to their best abilities: “In fact, he…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh hello, new monkey. Here are some soviet schoolbooks for you. It begins: scientists implant false short-term memory into rodents. Lightning-caused hallucinations are the worst kinds of hallucinations. As always,…
Support Anti-Bullying Organizations
You can help support Hold On Another Day and Project Believe In Me, two largely youth-run organizations that fight bullying, by contributing to the production of their compilation album, “Songs For…
Trouble In Nipple Paradise
The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media…
“The 13-Week Background Check”
At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan links to last week’s essay by Patrick Walsh, “Guns and the American.” Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!