BuzzFeed
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Weekly Geekery
Save this as a bookmark. You writer nerds are going to need it. Assange on Orwell and, of course, the Internet. The seven wonders of the modern technological age. Why the Internet is a portal to our own darkness. Working…
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Weekly Geekery
When we fight about Buzzfeed. Your laptop will soon be more emotionally intelligent than most people. Printing out people. This is your creativity. This is your creativity on the Internet. Telegraphic literature.
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Writing After 40
If the lists are to be believed, the only good new writers are under 40. It’s not just Buzzfeed, but also the New Yorker, Granta, and others who publish lists of great new—and young—authors. Joanna Walsh takes issue with this…
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Books Inspire Better Listicles
Millennials may love their listicles, memes, and Internet kitsch, but they also love books. A new Pew study has shown the Millennials are more likely to read than older generations. And all those books are fodder for less serious content,…
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Weekly Geekery
If you are a white man, your Internet is different than other internets. Hackers are going offline and embracing print. Content moderators keep your Internet from being worse. A comprehensive history of the reviled banner ad. Facebook is changing journalism.…
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Sinking, Steadily
Over at Buzzfeed, Leigh Stein paints a portrait of two lovers before the fall: Jason and I met in 2007, at an audition for a tragedy. I was 22 and wanted the role of Medea. He was 18 and didn’t…
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Properly Bruised
Talking to Margaret Eby, Saeed Jones waxes poetic on his lexicon: “I was obsessed with the word ‘boy’, in all its facets,” Jones says. “There are the racial connotations, but also the American-ness of the word, the way it’s used…
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Broke and Broken
Saeed Jones published a book of poems, Prelude To Bruise. Over at Buzzfeed, he’ll tell you why he wrote them, too: “My mother had a fatal heart attack the night before Mother’s Day in 2011. The experience of losing her…
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Weekly Geekery
Social media, journalism, Ferguson, and challenging power. The Internet cannot have nice things. We’re all horses. So, where’s our Black Beauty? The nature of creativity. You guys, you guys, Buzzfeed isn’t the devil. Honestly. Is that robot a better writer than…
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Isaac Fitzgerald on Almost Live at Mellow Pages
Rumpus co-owner and Buzzfeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald sits down with Mellow Pages Library for a podcast discussion. They talk about Fitzgerald’s blog-to-book project Pen & Ink, his career path, and his transcontinental journey to New York to work at…
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Moms and Sex
At Buzzfeed, Rumpus Sunday Editor Gina Frangello writes about the complicated relationship between women, mothers, writing and sex: I’m not really sure how our culture has arrived at the mutually exclusive relationship between Motherhood and Sexuality, especially since in most…
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Be Consistent, Be Yourself, Be Committed
Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay spoke to Joshunda Sanders at Buzzfeed about her debut novel An Untamed State and her forthcoming collection of essays, Bad Feminist. Gay offers some advice to writers and bloggers: You have to be consistent. You have…