“Empire Of Illusion,” A Book I Haven’t Read Yet
One of the great things about the bookstore business is you get to be the first to see what’s new. And when you work for a small, used bookstore, the…
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When I Was Young
“And he came to interview me and suddenly I felt like he was trying to corner me. ‘Oh, what’s it like being a terrorist,’ and ‘You’re just doing it for…
Small Is Not Cute, It’s Huge
“I was traveling and barely understood how I’d ended up there on a Ferris wheel at night, dangling above a town I didn’t know, thousands of miles from anyone I…
The Book I Need For My Birthday
Since I’m turning thirty in early September and starting to feel a new-found urgency coupled with a blasé acceptance of life’s fast and furious pace, I wonder about the things…
“I Respect Criticism.”
“I respect criticism. But I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I’m a better writer than most of the people writing…
An Imperfect Masterpiece: The Rumpus Interview with Members of Midwest Dilemma
Midwest Dilemma’s Timelines and Tragedies combines resonant storytelling with genre-bending indie-folk music and a plethora of eclectic instruments.
Morning Coffee
The most amazing website on the Internet. (might want to turn the sound down on your computer, NSFW) Perhaps the real question here is why was Sarah Palin signing a…
It Has Ever Been Thus
“Printed books have been in existence for four hundred years at the most, and already they pile up in certain countries in such a way as threaten the old balance…
Mike Tyson in Five Acts: A Rumpus Consideration
I Mike Tyson doesn’t seem full of it, but sometimes it seems full of him. Each persona gets taken to an extreme. Think Gollum in Lord of the Rings, if…
Lily Burana’s Been Busy
Back in April The Rumpus interviewed Lily Burana. Since then she has been busy promoting her recent memoir I Love A Man In Uniform with a book tour that stopped…