Life on Sandpaper
Yoram Kaniuk’s autobiographical novel Life on Sandpaper follows the Israeli writer through his galavanting in 1950s Greenwich Village.
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Where I Write #10: Nowhere, Everywhere
Most often, I don’t. I watch basketball instead. I check my e-mail. I cook dinner and make love to my girlfriend and read magazine articles about the financial crisis. I…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #89
CARS 2 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cars 2.
Monster Party
Lizzy Acker’s first book of stories Monster Party depicts lost adults, drifting into the coming storm.
Kids With Guns: Notes and Photographs from Palestine
Palestine Speaks is a San Francisco-based, Kickstarter-funded independent journalism initiative collecting stories of daily life in Palestine. Assistant editor and Rumpus photographer Timothy Faust recently traveled to Palestine with the…
The Rumpus Interview with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (aka Aly Spaltro) has been quietly minding her apiary in past years, recording LPs on her eight-track in New England apartments. After a stint at SXSW…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #75: The Three-Year Dry Hump
Set your limits. State your needs. Respect your boundaries. Then step back.
Rafah Crossing
Approaching the Rafah crossing on the morning of its historic opening, I pass a lone Palestinian woman in her mid 20’s holding a newborn, walking into Egypt. Twenty yards behind…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #37: Snake Bite
In the Book of Job, a capricious, punishing God speaks from behind the obscuring protection of a whirlwind.
My Stupid Dollar, My Beautiful Soul
When reading Space, in Chains, I would command my sister, my mother, my friends: “listen to this poem.” I recited Kasischke’s poetry out loud at the dinner table; I scanned…
There Is a Head Rolling Over the Platform: The Strange Case of George Lippard’s The Quaker City
On July 12, 1849, a man appeared at the offices, in Philadelphia, of the Quaker City, a newspaper. He was despondent and wearing only one shoe, and was seeking the…