Swinging Modern Sounds #40: A Miscellany of Musical Thoughts That Will Not Otherwise Appear
From June through December of 2012, I kept a diary of musical impressions that didn’t develop into longer pieces.
Rumpus Originals
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SELF-MADE MAN #19: Notes on Negative Space
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #168
MARSHMALLOWS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing marshmallows.
Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Robinson Alone
An excerpt from the genre-bending Robinson Alone, exploring the life of poet/painter/musician/critic Weldon Kees.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Wearing a Mustache
To wear a mustache is to travel through time, and to travel through, too, to another identity...
Saturday Rumpus Interview: Tirza True Latimer
There is not a lot of reinforcement for being a whole person in capitalism, let alone in the universities.
Saturday Rumpus Essay: Black Barbie
She reached out for my hand from behind the boxed area of the courtroom that separated the inmates, like her, from the lawyers like me. Me and the bailiffs and the good citizens just there on parking tickets. “Can I hold your hand?” she said.
Literary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
Why I Chose Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
These poems are not traps, but safe spaces with doors inside them.