Jillian Lauren: The Last Book I Loved, Blonde
My framed, original Marilyn calendar has been glaring at me from my den wall ever since I finished Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde. When I look at it now, I feel as…
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Literary Fashionables: The Showman and The Muse
Two further reasons to drop your day job and write full time rather than watch all this literary glamor ringside are Jonathan Ames and Sophie Dahl. Unless, of course, you…
Morning Coffee
Robert Voit’s new trees. Crazy rad optical illusion sculpture schizophrenia test! If I understand this correctly, prosecutors are charging half eaten hamburgers with murder (note: this is a gross misread…
Sexually, I’m More of a Denmark: A Highly Subjective Book Review
I’ve been trying to count how many times I’ve penned myself profiles for dating advertisements, and the truth is I can’t. Since my first major relationship ended in May of…
Tune of the Day
Artists: MC Lars and K.Flay Song: “Single and Famous” Note: K.Flay will be performing at the next Monthly Rumpus.
Lolita‘s Many Faces
1 book. 164 covers. Artists create amazing Lolita designs. (via @Brainpicker)
The Rising of the Ashes
What Jelloun proves throughout this book is that he has not let language(s) fail him or the people, places and historical moments he memorializes, making dates that are not headlines…
Poet Loses Favorite Cafe Table
“‘I wrote three books sitting at the table,’ he said.” Poet Rodrigo Toscano laments the closing of the Greenpoint Coffeehouse in Brooklyn, where he wrote for seven years.
Why Read Nonfiction?
Over at The Utne Reader, Keith Goetzman asks a question originally posed by John D’Agata, “Do we read (nonfiction) to receive information, or do we read it to experience art?”
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #21: Skiing With Rifles
“It’s not a sport if you can play it with a beer in one hand.”