Benjamin Sarlin: The Last Book I Loved, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go
I don’t think I’ve had more fun with any recent read than last year’s I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking…
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Spreading the gospel: OWH OOOOOWWWHH!
In another time, he would have been called prophet. So reads the gravestone of the comedian Sam Kinison. On April 10, 1992, at age 38, Kinison met his end in…
The Last Book I Loved: Too Big to Miss
I used to read lots of mysteries, and for some reason I stopped. Then I heard about Sue Ann Jaffarian’s mysteries from Mystery Bookstore on Twitter, and got addicted. Her…
Notes from Underground
The world will end in a matter of hours… unless Lowboy can lose his virginity.
Look Out New Yorkers: Black Hand has an Auto
“Maintaining the American spirit of up-to-dateness, which is said to attain its most perfect flower in New York, the Black Hand has now added the automobile to its working machinery….…
Battle of the Books
“Best novel” awards are not often thrown into metaphorical convergence with mixed martial arts. However, as the founders of the Tournament of Books point out, “Everyone knows that, behind the…
The Rumpus Long Interview with Michael Uslan
Comics and movies with the man who has owned the film rights to Batman for thirty years.
The Last Book I Loved: Isaac Fitzgerald, the first half of The Night of the Gun
That’s not to say I didn’t like the second half of the book, where David Carr gets his life back on track and ends up working as a writer for…
FUNNY AMERICA: The Baby Steps Blues
Excuse me, but I got a couple of questions. What’s the damn deal? The hell happened? Am I missing something? I mean, come on, Barack Obama assumed office almost two…
Jonathan Kiefer: The Last Book I Loved, What’s Not to Love?
Sometimes I like to make myself depressed by reading other writers named Jonathan who are better than me. Lately it’s been a lot of fun/shame, what with Lethem and Franzen…
Ainsley Drew: The Last Book I Loved, Back to Basics
Barefoot Contessa: Back To Basics. My version of cooking usually involves a box, water, and a microwave, but Ina Garten breaks it down in a way that even culinary Tripp…
The Rumpus Interview with Mary Rosenberg
Five years ago, a new poetry contest entered the scene with relatively little fanfare.