100 Years of Bookmobiles
Here’s an LA Times slideshow of bookmobiles of past and present, starting with Germany’s ultra-mod ROBI bookmobile, which was created to serve the library-less towns in the Heilbronn area. According…
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Putin Flies Away Home
Vladimir Putin guided a flock of Siberian cranes to their winter habitat this week by piloting a motorized hang glider while dressed in a Siberian crane costume. This marks a resurgence…
Brown’s Modernist Journals Project
Greer Mansfield of Bookslut checks out the Modernist Journals Project, a literary site launched in 1995 by Brown University that acts as a digital library of magazines associated with Modernism.…
Himanshu Suri
Himanshu (Heems) Suri is a former Wall Street employee, one third of Das Racist, the head of Greedhead Music, and all around thoughtful person. Forbes has interviewed Himanshu about his aforementioned…
New App Alerts Online Shoppers To The Products Of Child Labor
Michael J. Coren sheds light on aVOID, a plugin that tells online shoppers exactly which items are products of child labor, for Co.EXIST: “Now you can do your part. A new…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So you want to be an hivernaut. I’m sorry you guys but here are some baby hedgehogs. LASERS!!! You should not call 911 to tell them about your dreams. The…
Checking the Box
Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist writes for NY Mag about her experience with sexual violence, and the difficulty of finding language — as an individual and as a culture…
Books Editor to Speak at OMCA!
Rumpus books editor Rebekah Otto will partake in Oakland Museum’s In-the-Mix series, speaking on the women’s movement and its relevance today. If you’re in the Bay Area, check out the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mid-century political prisoner’s last letter to her daughter. 19th Century professional mourners. 18th Century brains. 50,000 year old genomes. Jurassic era previously unknown pterosaurs.
Have Pen, Will Art-Blog Redux
Steve Brodner is back! Lest you accuse us of being politically biased, here he is live-blogging the Democratic National Convention for The Nation. Get ready for more hand-drawn satire, after…
To Give A Girl Her Voice Back
“I lose faith daily. Still. I don’t ever have “writer’s block” (I’m not ever sure I believe in it), but I do let writing go all the time. I now…
Susan Straight in San Francisco
Next week, Susan Straight’s latest novel, Between Heaven and Here, will be released by McSweeney’s. This week, you can catch the California native at the following two San Francisco events.…