Melissa Pilakowski: The Last Book I Loved, The Borrower
You are 25 years old, and since college you’ve been shelving children’s books in a small Missouri library and living on the top floor of a theater, where you are…
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MoMA Event Tomorrow
New York folks: Don’t miss The Language of Objects tomorrow evening at MoMA. “Rob Walker, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and co-organizer (with Joshua Glenn) of the…
FUNNY WOMEN #66: A Day in the Top 40
Ever wondered what your day would look like if you lived in the Top 40? Wonder no longer. (Bonus points if you can sing parts of it. Our sympathy if…
THE LONELY VOICE #13: Walser on Mission Street
I confess I like reading stories about people who are more depressed than I am. Other people’s misery has a way of lifting the soul a little. Happy stories? They’re…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #108
MY NAME ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my name.
All About Orner
Peter Orner’s new book, Love and Shame and Love, got some *ahem* love today from the New York Times. No surprise to us though, as the book is our November…
Looking for Hymns of Seizure
There is some of Rilke’s spiritual longing in Basil, expressed most frequently through agonizing bodies and food.
FUNNY WOMEN #65: Literary-Minded Sister is One of the Guys
As the only girl in a family of five boys, Sarah Thompson always felt left out. “It was like, because I didn’t have a penis, I wasn’t allowed to pee…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #107
MY NEW SUIT ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my new suit.
Benjamin Nadler: The Last Book I Loved, The Street
I return to The Street again and again. I first read the novel when I working as a bookseller out on West 4th St. in New York. A man I…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #88: The Human Scale
What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you?
Census, 1980
An excerpt from Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner, our November Rumpus Book Club selection (which is already receiving wonderful reviews, so now’s a great time to join…