Lin’s New Weekly Venture
Drug-Related Photoshop Art is Tao Lin’s new weekly column in Vice. As per Lin-style poetry, it involves contemporary cultural references interspersed with notable, historical artists. That being said,...
View ArticleRombes Reviews Tao Lin and Megan Boyle Film
Our very own film connoisseur, Nick Rombes, reviews Tao Lin and Megan Boyle’s DIY film, Bebe Zeva, which was entirely filmed on a MacBook. The film revolves around a 17 year-old fashion blogger.“…a...
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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with...
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go to pages to generate content...
View ArticleTao Lin/ Ben Lerner Conversation on Poetry/A Novel About Poetry
Tao Lin interviews the poet and novelist, Ben Lerner for the Believer. After three poetry collections, Lerner just published a novel, Leaving Atocha Station (Muumuu House excerpts it here).It turns out...
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If Hemingway Were a Poet
In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life.Ben Lerner, renowned for his poetry, finalist...
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The Rumpus Interview with Marie Calloway
In late November Marie Calloway, a twenty-one year old college student, published on her blog a long essay about sleeping with a writer twice her age.She had admired his online writing and sent him a...
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The Drugs Do Work
Strange, surreal and occasionally macabre, the new short-fiction anthology The Speed Chronicles offers a primer on a class of illicit substances—and a category of human experience—at once painful and...
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Sense of Place #4: Tao Lin, NYU Library
Tao LinPlace: NYU LibraryClick image to enlarge.***This photograph shows me standing outside my house, which looks weirdly much bigger here than it actually is when you see it in person. It’s not...
View ArticleTao Lin Tells Tattoo Tale
If you didn’t already know, Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton run a spiffy little blog called Pen & Ink, which documents “tattoos and the stories behind...
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...
View ArticleHow Racism Hurts White Writers
The fight against inequality, the fight against The Default, is a fight for white spiritual and emotional freedom, not just the freedom of people of color, women, or gays and lesbians.In a diffuse but...
View ArticleWhere Are You?
Visual Edition just presented its most recent project, “Where You Are,” in which 16 authors and artists were asked to create a personal map.Among the invited contributors are Rumpus interviewees Sheila...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 4/19–4/25
Saturday 4/19: Chris Sylvester, Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Jordan Dunn, and Eddie Hopely read at part three of the Brooklyn Poetry Summit. BookThugNation, 7:30 p.m., free.David Abel, Anna...
View ArticleRe-Referencing the Self
When Tao Lin asked Ben Lerner about his new novel’s epigraph, Lerner touched on the merits of the parable:I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it’s...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 10/4–10/10
Saturday 10/4: Sasha Fletcher, Tracy Dimond, Morgan Parker, Sarah Bridgins, Jeffery Berg, Christina Drill, Anna Fitzgerald, Debora Kuan, and Mark Cigini celebrate the sixth month anniversary of...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Alt Lit
The Alt Lit community brought together a disparate group of writers and poets from the sorts of backgrounds often ignored by mainstream literary fiction, leveraging the Internet and building a loyal...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 6/13–6/19
Saturday 6/13: Norte Maar reads Tobacco Hour. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.Newtown Literary celebrate the launch of Issue 6. Queens Council on the Arts, 7 p.m., free.Erika Swyler, Ted Thompson, and Sarah...
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Kirsten Irving
There’s evidence that D.H. Lawrence enjoyed an erotic power exchange relationship with his wife, that James Joyce was into scat (among other things), and that Oscar Wilde—well, most of us know what...
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Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.
Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez was a member of the rap group Das Racist, which had hits like “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and “hahahaha jk” that mixed Dada sensibilities with straight-up hip-hop....
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 5/14–5/20
Monday 5/14: Dan Sheehan and Daniel Abbott discuss and sign Restless Souls and The Concrete. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Sebastian Abbot signs The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer’s Next Superstars. 7...
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