All Over Coffee #573
Being an artist doesn't mean you get to be lazy. It means you're an entrepreneur, and that you can't wait for anyone to tell you what to do.
Rumpus Originals
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The Bitch in My Book
I didn't have any conscious intentions for the kind of protagonist Marjorie would be. She indulged every bad instinct. And it was glorious.
The Last Movie I Loved: Hook
Having first seen [Hook] at the impressionable age of three, it molded me into the chronically nostalgic, child-like, death-fearing person that I am today.
The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Daniel Anderson
In Episode 5 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet Daniel Anderson to chat about his latest collection, The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel, finding the rhythm in lines of poetry, and baseball.
The True American by Anand Giridharadas
The True American is an intellectually agile and incessantly compelling portrait of post-9/11 America—of what we are and of what we might become.
The Rumpus Interview with Dani Shapiro
Author Dani Shapiro talks about her latest book, Still Writing, MFA vs. NYC vs. life in bucolic CT, and the lure of Internet.
anhedonia and Hypertext
Depression is often marked by this type of absence—loss of pleasure, loss of energy, loss of meaning. It is frequently described as a type of nothingness, and while that nothingness is something, it can elude usual means of communication.
My Nixon Years
For me, although the decade would also give us disco and Norman Lear sitcoms and my absolute favorite bell-bottomed striped green pantsuit, the 70s were all about Nixon...
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 10
Becoming a poet means locating what images and symbols, what argument and figuration, are best suited to convey the aspects of change you most want to reveal through your writing.
The Rumpus Interview with Douglas Cruickshank
Writer, editor, and photographer Douglas Cruickshank talks about retiring to Uganda, his new book Somehow: Living on Uganda Time, and the perils of writing about Africa as a Westerner.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #244
LAMPS ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing lamps.