Wendy Breuer: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Flows
Russian journalist and novelist, Vasily Grossman, is the most humanist of writers. I found my way to him through his brilliant epic of WWII, Life and Fate. I didn’t want…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Andrew Foster Altschul
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Andrew Foster Altschul about Deus Ex Machina, Reality TV, the loss of truth, and what it’s like to visit a porn set in the name…
FUNNY WOMEN #41: W4M ISO Wealthy Patron of the Arts
A hearty bonjour and aloha to all you lovers of arts & letters, I may be old-fashioned, but I prefer not to keep a day job when the winsome muse…
Something Small and Beautiful
The UK’s Guardian runs a Poem of the Week. This week it’s ‘My Grandmother’s Opal’ by Grevel Lindop. The accompanying article is a thoughtful discussion of the piece and of…
Reading Habits of the Service Industries, Part One
Nick Delany turned up at a reading I gave at the Brooklyn Museum in November of 2010. He remarked, during the question and answer portion of the event, that he…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas
Angie is my nineteen-month-old son Charlie’s nanny. She’s been living with us since October 12, 2010. Angie is thirty years old, and is currently reading John Williams’s novel Stoner.
John Knight: The Last Book I Loved, The Best of Roald Dahl
There are too many good writers for me to keep track of so, mostly for the sake of convenience, I categorize them: Koontz writes thrillers, Franzen does literature, King fills…
Gabriela Iztner: The Last Book I Loved, The History of Love
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss, is a book within a book within a book. Like a matryoshka doll set, when you think you discover what the book is…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #67
PEPPER SPRAY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing pepper spray.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #66
BROOKSTONE ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brookstone.
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #33: Collapse of the Metrodome
I should have known, when the New York Knicks began winning in November, that some sort of rift was opening up in the firewall that keeps our dreams separate from…
Funny Women Are on Vacation
Dearest Readers, Contributors, Hopeful Contributors, and Men, The Funny Women column is going away to the Sugar Shack until 2011. While you are welcome and encouraged to send submissions to…