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The Ecstasy of Influence
In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem skips through culture—fine arts to music to literature to the personal and collective context of it all.
Tad Winslow Reviews the World #126
THIS REVIEW ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing this review.
The Disciples of Memory
When I was eleven years old, my father enrolled me in a memory improvement course at the local community college.
Pratfall into the Infinite
Is Lars Iyer’s new book Dogma a refutation of literature? Or an inevitable confirmation? Regardless, it’s a funny philosophical tale.
The Comics Journal: A Jesse Moynihan Interview
By Frank Santoro Jesse Moynihan is a force. Storyboard artist, writer, cartoonist, webcartoonist, blogger — he’s everywhere. I’ve enjoyed following his webcomic Forming, and I was thrilled when I saw…
A Question of Perspective
In her new essay collection, Karaoke Culture, Dubravka Ugresic takes no cultural object or political abstraction at face value, but her instinct to pick apart old verities doesn’t mean this collection…
All Over Coffee #574
Right back at me
Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights…
The Rumpus Interview with Rafael Casal
Rafael Casal is known in the Bay Area hip hop community from his three appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and his music video Bay Area Slang, where he rattles…
In Defense of the Cheap Seats
It works like this. You tell the kid at the ticket counter you want to see J. Edgar at 7:30. He asks if you’d like regular or VIP seating.
A Flower Too Often Smelt Will Wilt
This is a hybrid book that chronicles the real journey and imagines the surreal journey of Lewis and Clark, from watching a baseball game with President Jefferson and Ozzie Smith,…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aase Berg, Johannes Göransson and Garth Graeper
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly…