The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #13: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian
In Rochester, New York, my best friend Brian returns from a mission to fix an errant Xerox brand copier, the company that employs him as a technician. I sit in…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #4: Betsy Birdsall
I live on 1.5 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains in a house that was built in the 1920s out of local stone. Most of the original buildings in the…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #12: Joen Madonna in Conversation with Cherry Crawley (Her Dead Mother)
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC…
The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #4
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Just a quick post today. Such a vigorous discussion about the book as…
FUNNY WOMEN #27: An Author Answers Her Fan Mail
That’s what we authors are always working for, that personal connection with the reader. It’s what makes all the unpaid hours, mostly spent blogging for a book deal, worthwhile.
The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #3: Andréa Ford
I live on 13th Street in apartment #13. The superstitious address came with a discounted rent. My roommate is a high school English teacher, so our bookshelves are stacked with…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #11: Asha Galindo in Conversation with Josh Madden
I used this project as an opportunity to send some questions to one of my favorite people, Josh Madden. Josh lives in New York City and besides DJing, styling, writing,…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #41
SANTA CLAUS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Santa Claus.
The Last Book I Loved: Dating Jesus
I keenly remember the day my Grandmother died. My parents picked me up early from afterschool care and before I could ask why, my Mother said “We’re going to your…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #10: Hannah Miet in Conversation with Her Brother, Gabe
Hannah Miet: So we’ve never spoken directly about the fact that you were recently dual diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and Schizoaffective Disorder. I’ve been wanting to know how you feel…
Swinging Modern Sounds #24: A Magician of the Highest Degree
The millennium is not very old, it’s true, and yet today is the day on which I feel obliged to anoint a best song of the millennium, and to risk…
Rumpus Book Club on Twitter
You can now follow The Rumpus Book Club on Twitter. Also, Book Club members, if you tweet about the club why not add a #RumpusBookClub hash tag? Just saying. Click…