Ted Wilson Reviews the World #23
CRYING ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing crying.
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The Last Book I Loved: Another Country
The beauty in Another Country is that it permits a reader to at once lament and celebrate the ways in which we use each other to further our own ideas of self.
Swinging Modern Sounds #20: Who’s Afraid of Serious Music?
Once, many years ago, I was at an artist’s colony in New Hampshire, The MacDowell Colony. I could never spend much time at MacDowell without suffering with paralyzing loneliness, and…
Funny Women Around the Web, 2/12/09
The best part of editing the Funny Women column is developing e-mail relationships with various women. (Did I say various? I meant you. Only you.) Sabrina Veroczi of Booby Hatch* is my…
FUNNY WOMEN #15: How to Move to San Francisco
First, abandon everyone you know and love. Say goodbye to friends, lovers, would-be lovers, American cheese, and sanity. You don’t need these things in San Francisco. You need isolation. You…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #22
JOHNNY TREMAIN’S HAND ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Johnny Tremain’s hand.
The Rumpus Funny Women Interview with Julie Klausner
Some people say men aren’t funny. In her memoir I Don’t Care About Your Band, comedienne Julie Klausner says it a few times: (1) “I was tired of pretending I thought he…
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” a Rumpus Original Poem by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the nuns come out to watch the boys in their gold and blue. Sister Marita, Sister Anne, and some weeks
FUNNY WOMEN #14: A Play About the Men at My Gym in Five Acts
ACT ONE Scene: DEREK*, is in his early thirties with a military haircut, moderately toned flab, and tinted eyeglasses.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #21
OCULTO PANTALONES NUDIST COLONY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Oculto Pantalones Nudist Colony.
“Family Elegy in a Late Style of Fire,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Kara Candito
Family Elegy in a Late Style of Fire After Larry Levis In the story no one will tell, my Great Uncle Salvatore is an errand boy for the mafiosi and…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #20
NONPROFITS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing nonprofits.