Ted Wilson Reviews the World #190
CANADA ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Canada.
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All the Longing Left in the Body
“Sorry,” she said as she passed me in the entrance to the women’s room. “That’s my husband in the other stall. Don’t mind him.” She was going back to her car.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Preston L. Allen
"I always follow the old dictum 'write what you know.' So what do I know?...The big and the small, the powerful and the powerless, the great and the not so great, the haves and the have nots, those who oppress and those who are oppressed."
The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Michelle Meyering
Michelle Meyering is a whirlwind of energy and a fixture in LA’s literary scene. She was named a 2013 “Face to Watch” by the Los Angeles Times
On the Rocks
There was a lightness to the way the waves batted me around on the stones, the lightness of a cat playing with a mouse it was about to kill.
THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH SAM AMIDON
Sam Amidon was raised on Irish fiddle tunes and early American folk-hymns but has left that history far behind. The 32 year-old, Vermont born-and-bred multi-instrumentalist and vocalist spends more of his time uncovering folk melodies in songs spanning many eras.
You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Alissa Nutting
Alissa Nutting discusses issues of gender and consent, and her novel Tampa, which depicts in relentless detail a female teacher sexually preying upon young male students.
Passagemaking
The boat comes out of the water, lifted from above. Airborne but steady, she is cradled by slings, wheeled forward from water to land by the lift that hoists her.
Readers Report: All for You
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “All for You.”
The Rumpus Interview with Dungeonesse
I think writing a great, catchy pop song that is transcendent and universal and touches people is one of the hardest things in the world to do.
The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Kanarek
Chocolates For Breakfast, Pamela Moore’s 1956 novel, is being reissued thanks to the determination of her son Kevin Kanarek. In 1964, Moore shot herself in the head, while nine-month-old Kevin was in the next room. “In The Next Room” is the title of Kevin’s afterword, included in the reissued paperback.