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MetaFilter links to our Sunday essay by Martha Bayne, Knocked Over: On Biology, Magical Thinking and Choice. We love you back!
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Sullivan on the Slowest Reader
Over at The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan gives love to Benjamin Percy’s essay on the merits of slow reading. Thanks, Andrew. We love you back!
Thomas Allen’s Beautiful Evidence
Thomas Allen, an artist who spent his summers “devoted to paging through (and tearing pages from) old science books, encyclopedias and primary readers” in the name of art, has an…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey dudes, want to pour some lava on some ice? In the (near) future you won’t have to touch anything. Sometimes it is important to read one star reviews of…
Notable San Francisco: 9/3-9/9
This week in San Francisco! Happy September Monday 9/3: Quiet Lightning takes it outside with a potluck picnic and reading at the Conservatory of Flowers in GG Park, featuring music…
Weekend Essay Roundup
Happy Labor Day, everyone! We hope you’re able to take it easy today. If you’re planning on knocking around the Rumpus for a bit, check out these fantastic essays we…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Labor Day, so we’re going to take things easy on the site today. You know what are rad? Unions and labor rights.
Vonnegut’s Marriage Contract
In his first marriage, Vonnegut was reduced to making out a contract with his wife to get all the relevant chores done. Those of you who are co-habiting or planning…
Roxane Gay Interview
“I’m a little tired of cynicism. It’s just so easy to be cynical—and there are plenty of reasons to be cynical, and I have my very cynical moments—but in terms…
HURRICANE (FINALLY) ISAAC
AUGUST 30, 2012 The New Orleans streets are a mess with shredded branches and other debris – roof tiles, broken signs, errant gutters – but the city, I think, so…
Have Pen, Will Art-Blog
Well this is just excellent: over at The Nation, artist Steve Brodner live-blogged the Republican National Convention—through illustrations. A sneak preview of what you’ll find, after the jump:
The Writerly Appetite
Did you know Jean-Paul Sartre was obsessed with halva? Or that Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf could have indulged a carb overload with one of their homemade loaves of bread?…