Ted Wilson Reviews the World #44
EWOKS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Ewoks.
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On Saving Letters
PBS Newshour’s Zoe Pollock holds an epistolary interview with New Yorker editor Ben Greenmen concerning his new collection of epistolary fiction, What He’s Poised to Do. Things get epistly real…
July’s Monthly Rumpus
Today! Do you have your tickets yet? July 12th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm in San Francisco. Featuring authors Justine Sharrock, Matt Stewart, Eli Horowitz w/ Mac…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #23: Katherine Tanney in Conversation with John Langford
John grew up in Hong Kong, the son of a missionary. Before becoming a commercial photographer he was a radio disc jockey, oil field roustabout, pizza delivery guy, and funeral…
Harvey Pekar
Sad news this morning: Harvey Pekar has died. For more Harvey, be sure to check out SMITH Mag‘s Pekar Project.
Jonathan Pappas: The Last Book I Loved, The English Major
When Jim Harrison’s The English Major was published a few years ago, I was working at the Cedar Tavern in New York. Sarah was the woman I tended bar with…
Surf Guru Notes, #2
Rumpus Book Club Member John Francisconi with thoughts on July’s Book Club pick, The Surf Guru by Doug Dorst. Continuing on in my reading, I’m finding more and more enjoyment…
The Ethics of the Book Blurb
Are there political advantages to writing book blurbs? Are there ethical lines writers shouldn’t cross? Scott Esposito of Conversational Reading weighs in using Nicole Krauss’ positive, to say the very…
The Work of the Day, Which is Slaughtering
In Joshua Cohen’s hyperreal world of kitsch, the Sabbath becomes law, Auschwitz becomes Whateverwitz, and the world’s last Jew is on the run.
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #37
“Load-bearing walls” is a myth made up by the carpenters’ union to scare people away from doing their own home improvements. Fine, then don’t help. But don’t plan on enjoying…
Notable New York, This Week 7/12 – 7/18
This week in New York Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis and Joshua Cohen read at The Bastille Day Soirée, Chuck Klosterman is back Eating Dinosaurs, Candance Bushnell embodies Carrie and takes…