Zak Smith in Conversation With Alexandros Vasmoulakis
90% of my street work has been made in Athens/Greece. The political and social situation there is pretty loose and that gives room for anomie of all sorts. It is not necessary…
Rumpus Originals
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TRUTH SERUM:
I Wish
Yay! Truth Serum is several books! Buy one and maybe you’ll finally be happy!
Post-Young: The Junky List (or the Incredible Weirdness of Not Being Dead)
At seventeen, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. I never actually thought I'd make it.
Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
Zoey Holloway's background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
Wild Kingdom
“Lydia Millet is one of the loosest writers I know. Her work takes rare risks with subject matter and form, and does so with a sense of jazzy improvisation.”
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #4
TIME TRAVELERS ★★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing time travelers.
Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others
A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary…
SMALL POTATOES:
Palindrome
See a large scale, hand drawn version of this piece at 4 Barrel cafe, 375 Valencia Street, San Francisco Opening reception and Rumpus party Friday, October 9th, 6-8pm angrylittlepotatoes.com …
Swinging Modern Sounds #15: On Technique
In popular music circles, these days, very good instrumental technique is often considered bad form.
Rooms of Their Own
Three generations of women cope with isolation, grief, and sex, in the first novel by the celebrated story writer, Rachel Sherman.
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #4: Duck
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Duck They were so young, this couple still new to their stories, looking ahead and not looking, locked into marriage.…
A Short, Personal History of Small, Independent Publishing (1995-2009)
Guys do a lot of things for girls’ attention, and my involvement with Mused Magazine was one of those things.