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Monster Girl: The Rumpus Interview with Chelsea Martin
“The second and fourth parts of that sentence came directly from life, but the first and third parts came from some thoughts I had while watching a movie, and the…
Doctors Who Write
“Patients bring us stories,” Terrence Holt explains. “We drop into the middle of patients’ stories and try to change the plot for the better. First we have to understand it, however.…
Drew Johnson: The Last Book I Loved, The House of Hunger
‘A writer drew a circle in the sand and stepping into it said “This is my novel,” but the circle, leaping, cut him clean through….’ —from The House of Hunger…
Random Media Notes
Layoffs begin at The AP. New study points to healthy newspaper readership. Police raid New York newspaper offices in corruption probe. YouTube connects with news organizations. Are awards the new…
Morning Coffee
Jim Kazanjian’s aberrations. We try to stay away from foreign language links as much as possible, but these x-rays of speech are pretty universally rad. Warhol’s Little Red Hen. If…
TRUTH SERUM: Cookbook
Hey, lookit! Truth Serum books (and minicomics, shirts, and postcards) are 50% off until the end of November!
Salvage Artist: The Rumpus Original Combo with Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I like to go where the life is. I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. I’m of the people in…
Terry Gilliam, Movie by Movie
Total Film has published an installment of their regular feature “Movie by Movie,” about each one of Terry Gilliam’s films: “The Trials, the Tribulations, The Triumphs.” From Monty Python and…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #10
THE FOR SALE SIGN PLACED IN MY YARD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the…
An Extra March to Fetch the Year Around
Thoreau’s Journal is forthcoming in a new edition from NYRB Classics, abridged by Damion Searls; the Quarterly Conversation’s Geoff Wisner has given a favorable and interesting review of the book: