the new yorker
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview with Dan Baum
Over the past few days, ex-New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum has received a lot of attention by rehashing the details of his dismissal in 140-character Twitter missives. I spoke with Dan Baum via email about his decision to use…
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#danbaum @The_Rumpus: Reactions
Following Stephen Elliot’s post http://bit.ly/32Mt06, I began covering Dan Baum’s Twitter story relatively late in the game, three days after his first tweet about being fired from The New Yorker. May 8, 10:46am: “People often ask why I left the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Uwem Akpan
“After the phone call, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But on getting there, I couldn’t sit or kneel or pray, out of excitement.”
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Double Issue: February 9 & 16
THAT BUZZING SOUND BY JEROME GROOPMAN Got a ringing in the old ear holes? Jerome Groopman writes about the somewhat elusive condition tinnitus, which causes phantom ringing in the ears. Scientists are conflicted as to whether tinnitus originates in the…