Rumpus Exclusive: Excerpts from Execute the Office
I am standing at the entrance to American History.
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Posts Tagged: George Washington
Writing History
I was pretty sure I could produce a manuscript superior to anything [this editor had] ever published before by letting my cat walk over my keyboard a few times.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Brooke C. Obie
Brooke C. Obie discusses the historical basis for her debut novel, Book of Addis, writing to dismantle white supremacy, and why Black speculative fiction is integral to her survival.
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FUNNY WOMEN #137: Press Release for Zeitgeisty Book
Nothing will ever be ordinary again.
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The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis
Robert Rosenberger reviews The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Damien Ober
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.
...moreHappy Birthday Mr. President?
We think not! George Washington’s birthday is actually on February 22nd but thanks to some decisions by the people in charge, we will probably never celebrate the man’s actual birthday on the right day. Mike Duncan and Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak talk about the misplaced birthday of George Washington and the birth of a three […]
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Jefferson and Hamilton by John Ferling
Damien Ober reviews John Ferling’s JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreBlow Your Mind with These Timelines
Using a series of timelines that represent increasingly large amounts of time, this blog post puts everything in perspective. Everything. It starts out simple—timelines of the last 24 hours, the last week, and so on—and works its way up through recorded history and human evolution from apes all the way to the existence of the universe. […]
...moreGot a Question? Ask a Slave
Azie Dungey started her acting career as “the time-traveling black girl”: she played “every black woman of note that ever lived” in regional theaters and at historic sites around Washington, DC. One of those roles—as a slave at George Washington’s Mount Vernon—ended up being more emotionally complex than she expected. The questions people asked about […]
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Jonathon Keats and The Art of Epigenetic Cloning
I hadn’t expected the San Francisco outpost of the world’s first epigenetic human cloning agency to be so, well, pretty. Five mirrors line Modernism Gallery’s white walls, each overlaid with a rendering of a formidable figure from centuries past.
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