Doing the SlutWalk
Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Take a look at the list of banned words at New York magazine under former editor Kurt Andersen. (via) The Rapture didn’t happen, but Maud Newton’s 40th birthday did. The…
The Rumpus Sunday Books Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Below, check out our reviews, interviews, and essays.
Doll Fascination
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll…
100 Interviews
Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.”…
Whitewashing the X-Men
“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Nice news: Figment, the writing community website for teens, receives $1 million. This is not your kid’s graphic book: Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John.…
Notable New York, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a…
Writing About a Psychiatrist’s Death
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was…
Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the…
Notable New York, This Week 5/02-5/08
This week in New York Ai Weiwei’s public art installation debuts at Central Park; a talk on manga and graphic novels at The Japan Society; Kathryn Harrison, author of The…