Ursula K. Le Guin: A Poet’s Legacy
Help publish Ursula K. Le Guin’s final collection of poetry!
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Posts Tagged: Kickstarter
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Sound & Vision: Brandon Stosuy
Allyson McCabe talks with music journalist, editor, and curator Brandon Stosuy about his path to music journalism, how the industry has changed, and what he’s working on now.
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Sound & Vision: Leah Hennessey
Allyson McCabe talks with Leah Hennessey, a co-creator of the DIY web series Zhe Zhe, about the art of performance in the age of Trump.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet’s potential for visual artists.
...moreThe Card Game Everyone Will Be Playing This Holiday Season
Electric Literature just launched a fundraising campaign for their new literary card game full of crude humor and punny jokes about favorite classic authors and works. According to its Kickstarter page, Papercuts: A Party Game for the Rude and Well-Read is “what Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, and Virginia Woolf would play if they were alive, […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
The project to bring a second bookstore to Queens, New York has met its Kickstarter goal. The borough of 2.2 million people was down to a single bookstore, Astoria Bookshop, after a Forest Hills Barnes & Noble closed. Bangkok has a thriving bookstore scene. Amazon targets New York City’s literary scene with a brick and […]
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Sound & Vision: Alice Bag
Allyson McCabe talks with Alice Bag, one of LA punk’s first frontwomen in the mid-70s as the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, and who has just released her self-titled debut solo album.
...moreGoDefundMe
There’s no denying that crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have brought resources to artists and causes that wouldn’t have found support a decade ago. However, according to Emma Hoffman at WIRED, a dark side is emerging. Everything—from academic research projects, to elementary school classes, to parks and recreation departments—is seen as crowdfundable, meaning that […]
...moreA Woman, A Part, A Movie, A Campaign
Of all possible women characters, how did I ever end up writing about an actress? Having spent two decades making films and art about women’s experiences from a feminist perspective, I realized that actresses are the ultimate representation of women—they tell our culture who and what a woman is, what she wants and feels. Feminist […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #6
Welcome back the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. This is the final installment: the round up. I’m relieved and overjoyed to say the project was fully funded and then some. No Country Music will have a proper release on vinyl with some extra […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #5
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. At the time of writing, there’s just under a week to go with the campaign. At the time of publication, there will be one day left. The good new is, we made it. Funded! […]
...moreChief O’Brien on Kickstarter
If you love Rumpus contributor Jon Adams‘s webcomic Chief O’Brien at Work but hate the hassle of using the Internet, you can now get the tales of Chief O’Brien’s workplace angst (including never-before-seen strips!) in a big book. Support Adams’s efforts on Kickstarter and get cool rewards like original art work, t-shirts, guest appearances—and the satisfaction of knowing you helped out […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #4
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Before I started working on my campaign, I asked friends what they thought about Kickstarter. I was kind of surprised by the negative responses. Everything from “Kickstarter is dead,” to comparing crowdfunding to a […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #3
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Wooo! Things are going amazing! We’re more than 2/3 of the way there and it’s been less than two weeks! We’ve received over one hundred pledges! We got selected as a staff pick (a […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #2
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. As much preparation as I have done for this beast, which I managed to drag out over six long months of dread, procrastination, and ambivalence about the entire concept of crowdfunding, I immediately discovered […]
...moreKicking & Screaming: Week #1
Today marks the launch of my first Kickstarter campaign and this blog mini-series, where I’ll be writing about the experience as it unfolds. I’m attempting to raise money to release an album. I feel strongly about this album. I love it. It’s maybe the best thing I’ve made yet. But for some reason, I’ve been […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo discusses feminism, coloring, badass women, and being a troller of trolls.
...moreHelp Keep Up Belt
Belt Magazine (whose Editor-in-Chief happens to be the Rumpus’s own Martha Bayne) is the only magazine that publishes independent journalism about the Rust Belt—and it pays all of its contributors a fair wage. In order to keep paying its writers for 2015, Belt is holding a Kickstarter. Pitch in to support Belt, and you can […]
...moreLiterature’s Crowdfunded Future
From small presses to literary journals, crowdfunding has grown into a major source of money for publishing. Authors are even turning to services like Kickstarter to fund their booktours, like Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star. Her successful campaign raised more than $9,000 for her book tour. To date, Kickstarter has raised more than $70m […]
...moreMcSweeney’s Seeks Donations
The 18-year-old independent publisher McSweeney’s is looking to raise some money for a new wave of projects. The publisher of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, The Organist podcast, and more has launched a Kickstarter campaign, with plenty of rewards (including book recommendations from or conversation with Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott).
...moreRedefining the Commons
A library is rarely ever just a library, often evolving alongside the community it serves. The Lacuna Project is taking this idea literally by building a library made entirely of books for this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. Festival-goers will be able to remove (and keep) books without damaging the structure, whose lighting and acoustics […]
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
...moreWhy Didion Remains
We like to think of Joan Didion as glamorous, the sunglasses-wearing, VOGUE-working, New York loving-and-leaving writer that we all could have been if only life had turned out a little differently. We imagine her sitting down to edit with a cocktail at the end of the day (her actual practice), writing screenplays with her handsome […]
...moreSupport Vela’s Kickstarter to Pay Writers
Vela Magazine is hoping to raise $25,000 to pay its women writers and editors. With less than a week left, they have $7,059 to pry from your gender-netural credit cards.
...moreAuthor Selling Postcards Written in Blood
Writing a novel requires plenty of time, and Irish author Julian Gough is hoping to fund that time with a Kickstarter campaign he has dubbed Litcoin. For small amounts of money, Gough will send contributors postcards stained with whiskey, coffee, lipstick, bullet holes, or, for a mere $500, a postcard written in his blood. Litcoin’s […]
...moreKickstarting “Desire”
Yony Leyser, director of the documentary about William S. Burroughs, is making a feature film about Berlin’s queer community, and he needs your help to crowdfund it. Over at Indiewire, Leyser explains his desire to deglamorize the city’s dark underground scene and explore what it means to be a member of a community whose definition is […]
...moreA Sci-Fi Anthology with a Mission
Racialicious links to a supercool Kickstarter for a project called Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. They describe it as “an anthology of radical science and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists,” and they only need around $8000 for it. Plus the gifts look pretty sweet—for $20, you get a sci-fi […]
...moreA Very Semi-Serious Request
Sometimes the most we can manage is to flip through the latest New Yorker for the cartoons. A recent Kickstarter project (with only 9 days left!) is a documentary about the clever minds behind those drawings you giggle at each week.
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