2013
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #214
COTTON CANDY ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing cotton candy.
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100-Year-Old Photos Found in Antarctica
Well, this is cool (pun not intended but definitely enjoyed): twenty-two 100-year-old photos were recently found in a block of ice in Antarctica. More accurately, they’re “exposed but unprocessed negatives,” believed to be taken by Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith as part of…
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Notable NYC: 12/28–1/3
Wednesday 1/1: The 40th Annual New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon features more than 140 poets. St. Marks Church, 2 p.m., $20. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club goes swimming. Stillwell Avenue, 1 p.m., $20 suggested. Thursday 1/2: Charles Bernstein, Matthew…
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Go to the Library Without Leaving Your House
If you liked learning about fore-edge paintings, you’ll love the New York Public Library’s Tumblr. And the Smithsonian Libraries’ Tumblr. And the University of Iowa’s Special Collections & University Archives Tumblr. And all the other library blogs linked in this MetaFilter post,…
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The Doris Lessing Movie Adaptation No One Talks About
Amanda Shubert, who recently interviewed Ronee Blakley for the Rumpus, has a thought-provoking piece up about Adore, the film adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novella “The Grandmothers.” It’s a challenging story in either format, dealing as it does with “women who sleep…
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Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Elizabeth Word Gutting reviews Kathryn Davis’s DUPLEX today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Baby Panda Bears!
We’ll just leave this here: A Smithsonian magazine piece on the National Zoo’s baby pandas. And it’s by Susan Orlean. And it includes photos.
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Homo Homini Lupus Est: The Rumpus Review of The Wolf of Wall Street
This movie is not a critique. It’s an advertisement for capitalism and its salacious, delectable greeds.
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Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver
Damon Ferrell Marbut reviews Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Social Justice and the Power of Twitter
Rumpus editor Roxane Gay has a new essay at Salon discussing the power of Twitter and empathy in the wake of the Justine Sacco scandal. Social media can give people a voice in situations where those voices are usually silenced, but,…
