Ted Wilson Reviews the World #84
WOODY WOODPECKER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Woody Woodpecker.
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In Zanesville
With the precise and true texture of ordinary experience, Jo Ann Beard’s new novel, In Zanesville, follows an unnamed narrator through her adolescence.
The Rumpus Interview with Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan’s Apocalypse is a sparse album of epic proportions, a celebration of American music, specifically what he describes as “that rich period in the ’70s when all the styles…
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The One Ton Honey
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics,…
WHERE I WRITE #7: Between Clients
I write between clients. There’s a yellow wall behind me, and fuzzy leopard print pillows on the floor.
Disorientation, Disgust, and Killing flies
Michael Dickman’s poems inhabit a place in which “morning makes its way up the street as a loose pack of wild dogs” and we find ourselves—through his sharp pronoun use—feeling…
The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender
I just think it has become clearer to me that writing is making a vessel to send to a reader.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #71: The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us
I’ll never know and neither will you of the life you don’t choose.