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Bella Santorum
Moral problems that do not fit tidily into preconceived ideas are fascinating and a good way to occupy oneself in the years of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Moral problems, when sufficiently complex,...
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A Rejoinder to Hate (or Why I Love The Rumpus)
A few weeks ago, I made arguably the biggest splash of my modest writing career: a paid publication on the virtual cover of the lefty web magazine, Salon.com. The piece was a pared-down version of a...
View ArticleImages of War
In an interview at the New Statesmen, photojournalist Don McCullin reveals his thoughts on image fatigue, his age, religious convictions, and voting habits.“Where I grew up, most of the people...
View ArticleMany Magazines, One Tablet App
Meet Next Issue Media: a newsstand tablet app that will allow you to read multiple magazines from a five major publishers all in one place.The app will start out with 32 titles–including big names like...
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The Rumpus Interview with Ann Friedman
On Ann Friedman’s blog, there’s a faux news item that parodies an article from Women’s Wear Daily about the “Dude-itors”—male editors, bros, “big-boys”—at the helm of magazines for both men and women....
View ArticleReckoning With Torture
Kelly Clark and Eve Ensler both read a speech originally given by President Bush against torture after the Abu Ghraib photos came out as part of PEN and the ACLU’s “staged readings showcasing...
View ArticleNothing But the Facts
“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”Anderson Cooper comes out. (Hooray!)Related Posts:No related posts…
View ArticleA Video Series on YouTube
Here’s something I haven’t seen before. An interesting, really interesting, web series featuring America Ferrera. Is this the direction of television though? Will we watch video series online that are...
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The Rumpus Interview With Joel Stein
At age 27, Joel Stein was hired by Time magazine as a staff writer. In many ways, Stein quickly turned the decades-old publication — revered, traditional, dry — on its head, infusing it with youthful...
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The Other Argo
In 2007 Rumpus pal and contributor Joshuah Bearman wrote “The Great Escape,” a Wired article upon which the Academy Award-winning film Argo was based. During editing, Josh wrote an alternate lede,...
View ArticleTao Lin Concludes iPhone Photo Documentary Series of Taipei
Yesterday, alt-lit author and experienced hamster artist Tao Lin published the last installment of a series of iPhone photos he’d taken for Vice during a recent trip to Taipei.The final selection is...
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: Stain
One summer afternoon when I was twelve, I walked my dog a bit further than usual and we ended up under the viaduct where I-75 crossed above our heads. It was so dark under the metal bridge that I...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay :Transparent and the Evolving Culture of Shame
In Transparent, during an early scene with their1 eldest child, Mort is sitting on a bed, trying to explain something difficult for a daughter to understand. Negotiating her own confusion, Sarah asks,...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Bill Cosby’s Faux Legacy
Bill Cosby is nothing like my father, and I am relieved.In a Facebook post where I shared New York Magazine’s riveting profile of thirty-five women Bill Cosby is accused of raping (with one empty...
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#OscarsSoWhite: Calling Out Academy Bias
This isn’t the first dance between the Oscars and irrelevance, and this celebratory pat on the back could use a star-studded slap to the face.#OscarsSoWhite strikes again with the cringe-worthiness of...
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Female Friendships and Online Literary Sexism
I read Kim Brooks’s recent essay in New York Magazine, “I’m Having A Friendship Affair,” describing her despair at the death of one of her female friendships, just days after one of my closest friends,...
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”I said it while straddling the man I loved. We were fully clothed, on my bed, in my newly...
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The Great Film Festival Swindle
“If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is… you’re the mark.” —David Mamet“Never pay an entry fee. If they won’t give you a waiver they aren’t interested in the film.” —Major film...
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Southern Girl: Beyoncé, Badu, and Southern Black Womanhood
Beyoncé is country as cornbread. As bamafied as okra and stewed tomatoes, watermelon with salt, grits, and gravy. She is sweet as honeysuckle nectar, as hot as the chow-chow that goes on your greens....
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Everything In Its Right Place”
“Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon,” sings Thom Yorke in the enthralling first song from Radiohead’s groundbreaking 2000 album, Kid A, which Rolling Stone called the “weirdest Number One album of...
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