Ted Wilson Reviews the World #182
MOTHER’S DAY 2013 ★★★★★ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mother’s Day 2013.
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Hold On to What You’ve Got
It feels like we created each other from scratch, scribbling in the details and watching ourselves take shape.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Emily Rapp
A day of celebration for many, Mother's Day is a more complex holiday for people who have lost their mothers--or their children.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
Captain Save-A-Ho
I’d been down that road a million times before and had learned the hard way that unless you had some kind of special line just for them, it never paid to give a client your phone number.
The Rumpus Interview with Maria Konnikova
Writer Maria Konnikova explores the mechanisms behind how a sharp mind works, through an investigation of one of literature's premier duos—Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Watson.
The Rumpus Interview with Denise Duhamel
Poet Denise Duhamel talks about form, inspiration sparked by pole-dancing dolls and movies, and the art of constructing prose poems to fit on Venetian blinds.
Improvising a Bone Graft
Very gradually, this frantic activity ceased to be simply an expression of emotional distress—what the grief experts call “searching behaviour”—and started evolving into a digital, extended elegiac project.
Readers Report: Misery Loves Company
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Misery Loves Company.”
Attention, Attention
Within the crowd is a bald-headed, bearded man. He carries a sketchpad that, if he were sitting cross-legged, would be big enough to cover his knees. He is not a reporter. “The funeral is over, but the corpse is still grooving,” he writes. The man is Shel Silverstein.