PJ Harvey Tuesday #9: “The Last Living Rose”
In 2011, two decades after her debut, PJ Harvey released what might actually be her best album ever: Let England Shake. Recorded in a church in Dorset, LES takes as its subjects homeland and war.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerry Stahl
Writer and Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl sits down for a candid chat about memoir, novels, shame, parenthood, being pigeonholed, and managing "the neat trick of being an outsider in all genres."
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #218
MY SPONGE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my sponge.
The Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Vapor Trail
"There’s days I think I’ll burn a year in Hell for every night Maria woke her momma and me, wanting to sleep with us, and I told her no, took her back to her room." Acclaimed novelist Craig Clevenger debuts on the Rumpus.
Am I Black Enough For You?
“Oh, she’s double-handed,” the jumping girl said. “I knew it.” It was akin to the Sandman tap-dancing to abort a stinker of a performance at the Apollo Theater. I was done.
Self-Made Man #27: Fool
I’d rather monkeybar across this subway car than turn away from possibility.
The Rumpus Interview with Mary Miller
Mary Miller talks about her first novel, The Last Days of California, the musicality and rhythm of sentences, how to avoid authorial intrusion, and when it's better to back away from the revision process.
The Rumpus Interview with Olivia Laing
Writer, journalist, and critic Olivia Laing discusses her newest book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, and the challenges of looking into the mind of an alcoholic versus the mind of a writer.
FUNNY WOMEN #113: BUDDHIST NUN PEMA CHÖDRÖN REWRITES THE CLASSICS
If we get him, we get him. If we don’t, we don’t. There are probably other white whales out there.