Fear and Loathing Turns 40
Thompson wanted to write a book devoted to the “death of the American Dream,” but he never truly got around to it.
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Set the Dumpster On Fire
What Gottlieb reveals to us in this collection, is that the key to survival is the same animal desire that served as our undoing in the first place, but the…
The Rumpus Interview with Mary Lattimore
Most often associated with chamber ensembles and orchestras, the harp first gained pop music cred thanks to the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”
FUNNY WOMEN #57: That’s Absolutely Not What She Said
The infamous “She” of the “That’s What She Said” jokes has released a new tell-all book making shocking claims about the joke’s validity.
Spooky Action at a Distance: David Lynch, Split Edit Realism, and Other Mysteries
There is a moment in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990) that cuts from Lula’s (Laura Dern’s) feet stomping in excitement on a bed to those same feet stomping in…
No Bad News for the King
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed…
All Over Coffee #540: Collaboration with Cheryl Strayed
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Cheryl Strayed. Click here to view.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #92
GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Guantanamo Bay Prison.
The Last Book I Loved: Mathilda Savitch
I befriended this narrator immediately—not necessarily because I agreed with her, but because I believed her.
Swinging Modern Sounds #30: What Is and Is Not Masculine
I’m writing about this profile, because I think this profile is a failure.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #77: The Truth That Lives There
Because wanting to leave is enough.
Your Emptiness Has an Aqueduct In It
The Last Usable Hour might be one of our truest examples of serial poetry. Each of the book’s four sequences, and each of the poems that comprise them, stand as…