Spotlight: In San Francisco, There Is a Street
A comic based on a French children’s song found in a book by Georges Perec, who found it in a book by Paul Eluard, who heard some French children singing…
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FUNNY WOMEN #97: The Whitest Album
It was a time in my life when I was frequently “tagged,” along with other Netizens who seemed to keep in touch and do good works. I did no good works, but I tried to keep in touch.
ALBUM #3, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Rosie Schaap
Rosie Schaap writes The New York Times Magazine’s “Drink” column and tends bar at South in Park Slope, Brooklyn. When we met, Rosie had just returned from touring for her new memoir Drinking with Men,
ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BOOK OUT #1: JOLIE HOLLAND
I once read an interview with Jolie Holland in which she mentioned how her songs come through her from some other world.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #175
SPANKY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Spanky.
The Rumpus Interview with Dan Kennedy
While many readers are familiar with the melancholy persona he’s adopted—and despite having written a new novel about a life falling apart—author Dan Kennedy is finally ready to admit something to the lit crowd, here and now: he loves mainstream American comedy...
All Over Coffee #497
"I listened to the news of the world too early and so the rest of the morning walked around feeling that everything was bad."
Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Mirrorverse
A man. His ex-wife. Her husband. And a multitude of parallel universes playing out on the television screen.
Saturday Rumpus Comic: Shrinking Father
He spends most of his time in the backyard mending broken butterfly wings...
For A.M., 1996-2013
When you're just a kid, you don't realize how big the world is outside of you.
The Last Book I Loved: A Time to Be Born
Ernest Hemingway purportedly said of Dawn Powell that she was his “favorite living writer.” Powell’s reputation has dwindled since then, and so I picked up A Time to Be Born in an…