David Rompf
@DavidRompf
Writing in: The New Yorker, The New York Times, L.A. Times, Harvard Review, MarketWatch, etc.
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Will rockets launch from Michigan's Upper Peninsula? My article for @NewYorker explores a polarizing initiative to build a spaceport on the edge of Lake Superior. newyorker.com/news/us-journa… #Space #Michigan @UpperPeninsula
Digging into the mysteries, truths, and fictions of New York’s cemeteries: honored to have this essay in Slag Glass City. slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyr…
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Here Lies A City - SLAG GLASS CITY
by David Rompf Emerging one morning from a subway station in Lower Manhattan, I waded through the bustle of traffic, sidewalk vendors, and flocks of tourists meandering toward Wall Street, and soon I...
Just passed through security at JFK. TSA workers, who are not being paid, were very friendly, upbeat and helpful. I thanked each one I interacted with for working. They appreciated the acknowledgement. New Yorkers are resilient and amazing! #Shutdown2025 #NYC @JFKairport
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.Your remarks over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties & are not fit for the auspicious office you occupy." - Gov. JB Pritzker youtube.com/watch?v=EemtWj…
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'Do not come to Chicago': Ill. Gov. Pritzker warns Trump over threats...
When your flight is delayed at SFO, you can go to a drag show. My former home town is one of a kind, and I left my heart here. #sanfrancisco #pride
Thrilled to have a story from my collection in the beautiful @CatamaranLit.
✨Join us on June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!✨ 🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @WilliamWButler, @susanmgaines, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elmckenzie1, @DavidRompf, @VecchioneAuthor Details: catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/20… #literaryevents, #writingcommunity
Peaceful protest: Maori members of New Zealand's parliament staged a "haka" to disrupt the vote on a bill that would have reinterpreted a 184-year-old treaty between Britain and the indigenous people. youtube.com/watch?v=N__OF4…
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Māori MPs perform haka and disrupt NZ parliament debate on treaty...
Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel, “Orbital,” a gorgeous, profound love letter to Earth, to the universe, and to humanity. If you need perspective or need to be transported, read this astonishing book. #Booker #reading #hope theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…
"We are a nation of immigrants." #KamalaHarris Remembering my great-grandmother Amelia Frankovic, who was put on a ship at age 10 without her parents, and no money, and sent to the U.S. in 1907. As a child she worked cleaning boarding houses in Minnesota. #ellipse #2024Election
"The Saturday Shift": A piece about my brief, bewildering life as a waiter in England. (I set the dining room on fire, and then this happened....). Many thanks to @Pangyrus for publishing this #essay. pangyrus.com/zest/the-satur…
Reading a brilliant polymath is thrilling; writing about him can be downright arduous & taxing. "When Tarzan Met Leonardo," my review of Guy Davenport's classic "The Geography of the Imagination" is now in Harvard Review. @Harvard_Review #Reading #Books harvardreview.org/content/a-leon…
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When Tarzan Met Leonardo
In the midst of the Great Depression, the ten-year-old son of an Express Railway agent hunkered down in his modest family abode in Anderson, South Carolina, to read the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice...
Pleased to have my short story about a man and his wolf published in Wildness, from Platypus Press. Many thanks to visionary editors Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather. @wildnessjournal @platypuspress #writing readwildness.com/33/rompf-king
Recommended listening: a reading of Annie Dillard's brilliant and haunting essay, "Total Eclipse," originally published in @theatlantic. #TotalSolarEclipse youtube.com/watch?v=C6RfIo…
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Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard (1982)
A wonderful writer and superb book. Highly recommended.
The Washington Post has named Leg one of the 50 best books of nonfiction of 2023. Thank you for lifting me up this year, friends. You’ve given me so many excuses to post shirtless selfies of my furry 39 yr old body and I’m grateful.
Humor is hard to get right in writing, but Andy Borowitz nails it every time. @BorowitzReport @NewYorker Declaration of Independence Found in Trump Storage Unit newyorker.com/humor/borowitz…
A fine essay by my former student @Ellsworth_Krebs, a #sustainability expert and imperfect vegan!
Excited to share this deeply personal essay about my journey to be an imperfect #Vegan and share my failures and insecurities along the way. Many thanks to my writing instructors @kathrynaalto @DavidRompf @heliconiuscydno for all your support and lessons litvegan.net/2022/10/memoir…
Miracle on 72nd Street: The Pacific Boychoir brings down the house at a New York City subway station! @PacificBoychoir #music
A review as lovely and meditative as the book itself — @DavidRompf @Harvard_Review captures the heart and essence of 🌳🐚⛰️Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau by @ben__shattuck. buff.ly/3nrxMzt
Recommended reading: "Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau," by @ben__shattuck. My essay about Ben, Henry, a book (or two), and some walks of a lifetime. @Harvard_Review. #Books #Essay harvardreview.org/content/walkin…
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