The Sweet Smell of Excess
Al-Anon sucked. If I hadn’t been too broke for therapy, I’d never have taken a friend’s advice to attend those awful meetings. They were worse than the AA meetings I’d…
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE’S EVIL EMPIRE
We listened to the album straight through. When it finished I looked at my hands. I’d kept them balled tightly for all forty-five minutes.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #155
STEW ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing stew.
The Rumpus Interview with Hans Weyandt
Hans Weyandt, editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores, exemplifies the assertion that booksellers are "matchmakers at heart."
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Sexlife: One Word or Two?
Rumpus Sunday editor, Gina Frangello, asked her friend and former professor, Cris Mazza, what it felt like to write a memoir about her inorgasmia in publishing climate where confessional "tell-alls" usually interrogate--and often celebrate--sexual excess. Here is Cris' emotionally candid response, directed towards Gina...and towards you.
On Being Average
The world is an asshole because it has given you not the best, but the good enough. The okay, that’s cool. The world has given you a pass. The world has given you a common face and a common name and a common story.
The Rumpus Interview with Jensen Beach
In the following exchange, writer Jensen Beach discusses mad stats, organizing principles, Sweden, the Bay Area, benevolent lying, Biblical annotation, bighearted wickedness, and the Fatherly Moment.
A Matter of Dignity
Certain constituencies are always shoved aside, always told their issues will be addressed at some nebulous point in the future. During a lengthy debate, to see these issues merit neither discussion nor debate speaks to how little dignity is valued on the political stage.
The Rumpus Review of The Master
In Anderson’s hands, we are always on a journey into the troubled minds and hearts of men at war with themselves; to the intersection of primitive impulses and intellectual aspiration; and, never more than in The Master, through hubris, half-blind seeking, and love that destroys itself.
The Week in Greed #15: Seven Unpopular Truths About Last Night’s Great Debate
1. Mitt Romney convincingly portrayed a sympathetic human being.
Sense of Place #2: Christopher Beha, Washington Square Park
At some point, the neighborhood — and these walks around it — seeped into the story.
Donkey Kong in Trouble
Let’s say it’s Redwood City, California, in the year 2000. It’s just barely summer, May or June. I just got out of middle school, but maybe not, maybe I have a year…