From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Posts Tagged: architecture
Trying to See a Future: Talking with Beth Gilstrap
Beth Gilstrap discusses her new story collection, DEADHEADING.
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Queer Disruptions: Talking with Bishakh Som
Bishakh Som discusses her debut graphic story collection, APSARA ENGINE.
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Love Thy Neighbor: Talking with Yewande Omotoso
Writer, poet, and architect Yewande Omotoso discusses her second novel, The Woman Next Door, Cape Town’s haunting beauty, and mythologies about motherhood.
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Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Quietly the Flood
If anyone was old pals it was Leona and the house. Was she friends with a house?
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Writing Romance: The Rumpus Interview with Sonali Dev
Sonali Dev talks about her latest novel, A Change of Heart, the romance genre, writing non-white characters, and the parallels between writing and architectural design.
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The Rumpus Interview with Abraham Burickson
Rick Moody talks with Abraham Burickson, Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, a San Francisco-based theater company whose works are designed for an audience of one.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Never Let Me Go
“You can’t hold on to the past,” Elif once told me. “You don’t know how. You don’t know what to keep, what to throw away. So you keep it all. And you can’t do that. No one can.”
...moreThe Poet and the City
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Stephen Kessler takes us through a pantheon of his favorite Los Angeles landmarks. He writes: Buildings are constructed and routinely erased, yet they remain implanted in the native’s mind like seeds of some vaguely remembered myth. Structures I frequented in formative days at times return, as here, to […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Jonathon Keats
Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats discusses Buckminster Fuller, three-wheeled cars, domed cities, climate change, and cameras with a 100-year exposure time.
...moreRestoring the World’s Oldest Library
when I worked for him I understood what kind of architect I wanted to be. He’s a very humane and generous person, and I understood that I didn’t want to do commercial architecture. I wanted to do projects that have a soul and a history, and even if they are new, they have an innovative […]
...moreEmbracing Brutalism
Brutalist architecture—those hulking, concrete buildings from the mid-1950s to mid-1970s—is making a quiet comeback in popularity. A new book by Christopher Beanland, Concrete Concept explores why: And the sheer variety of these “brutalist beasts,” in cities from Birmingham to Madrid to Montreal, is extraordinary. There are palaces and embassies and government buildings, railway signal boxes […]
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Exploring a Megalibrary
At Atlas Obscura’s Places index, a contributor shares photos and the history of Mexico City’s Biblioteca Vasconcelos, a “megalibrary” that combines five separate (and disparately designed) library-sized collections within one building.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Sophie Yanow & Sam Alden
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kelcey Parker
“…Fiction and literary nonfiction put you in the mind of character—in her psychological and spiritual “truths”—as she thinks and perceives and interprets and misinterprets and doubts and desires and decides.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
...moreThe View from a “Cramped Little Cottage” in Nairobi
“I love the tingling pullover of night sounds and forest sounds and the bite of cold breeze and distant cars and stereos. Sometimes I close my eyes and sway my arms into patterns to move with the sensations of the strong bitpieces banging about in my temples.” At The Paris Review, Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina […]
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It is hard to imagine any better way to start a day than with pictures of sleeping bugs covered in rain. I am linking to this because it is called Fun With Burgers. Flat San Francisco. There is some dang crazy architecture in the U.A.E. Here is a pretty cool new example. The Homosexual Ghost […]
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Department of tiny things: Dalton Ghetti makes sculptures out of pencil tips. Also his name is Dalton, which is pretty rad. Every Playboy centerfold from 1988-1997 (completely safe for work). A moral tale of Seahorses and unplanned pregnancy. Tetris soothes the mind and soul. Get to know the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize (this […]
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NY Times slide show on Conrad Gessner’s beastiaries. Anyone want to go live in a sweet cave house with me? Important advances in the field of robot journalism. I’ve often asked “what are the ten strangest moons?” Here are some pictures of a new born otter. I dare you to have a bad day.
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Spring! (almost) German prison cells are mostly nicer than my apartment. Words get in David Byrne’s way. Technically this is about old type interfaces, but let’s be honest here it’s just typewriter design porn. The sun is out today, and this house’s above ground pool is all sorts of appealing. What this country needs: Jonathan […]
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This is an article about Martian lubricant. Pretty much the weirdest headline I’ve read today. “I could really use a bad-ass architecture based link.” How about this water-purifying skyscraper? “I dunno, do you have anything involving quarries?” Oh, here you go. Abandoned mattresses.
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Wednesdays can be hard, so its either this or reading the GG Allin Wikipedia page in its entirety. Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes! Neatorama ponders one of the less talked about casualties of e-book business. Sometimes I really like […]
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Start your weekend off with some fine Victorian era photographs of Japan. The Guardian UK takes a look at unreliable narrators. Jeez, stop talking about the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo, move on man, 2012’s will be way radder. Long story short, everything in your house is trying to kill you. Who wouldn’t want to […]
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A little architecture porn to start your day, coming to you from Turkey, Japan, and Wayne Coyne’s heroin soaked brain. Evidently there is some sort of sporting event going on right now. Here are some commemorative stamps. Dead fly art (via MeFi.) The prehistoric, possibly dinosaur eating, armored devil toad.
...moreWhat Buildings Would You Ban?
“Fear, on one side, of watching Europe turn into “Eurabia” —even if the demographics don’t justify such worries—and, on the other, of seeing centuries’ worth of social liberalization—including women’s suffrage and gay rights—fall apart in the face of religious conservatism, has led to the illegalization of an architectural form. When your culture is under threat, […]
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Evidently we’re thinking about cities today. New Scientist takes an in-depth look at drowned cities, fact and fiction. Thank you New Scientist. The winning design for Mexico’s pavillion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. 1/100 scale architectural models. If that is your thing. Egypt’s garbage city. The Dutch are turning climate change into an opportunity […]
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Logical flow. On death masks. Going through back issues of Cabinet magazine is a good way to spend a day. A minor history of giant spheres. Voyeuristic architectural offices. Curbed looks at the best new SF buildings of the decade. We like lists because we do not want to die.
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I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet, but it is Autumn. The bitter lapse into everyday life. Wayne Levin’s haunting underwater photography. How to convert old factory buildings into rad Spanish art musuems. Impromtu musical from Improv Everywhere. (warning, german text!) Gerry Canavan points us to UFO 54-40, the only Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel with […]
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