There’s Coffee On My Shirt, Not Blood
Seemingly masked in the two words of the title (Ghost this, Machine that), Ben Mirov has written an intimate, if cryptic, book of poetry.
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On Reading Civil Complaint No. 11-2472, Tasini v. AOL Inc. et al.
A week ago the labor writer and activist Jonathan Tasini filed a $105-million lawsuit in United States District Court, in New York’s Southern District, against HuffPost’s new owner AOL Inc., and…
Swinging Modern Sounds #29: The Museum of Broken Things
Rick Moody interviews Moby about his obsession with drum machines.
FUNNY WOMEN #51 (INAUGURAL AUDIO EDITION): Ayn Rand’s Headcheese
The Atlas Shrugged movie has opened–and we have the antidote. Rebecca Coffey recorded and musically scored (really!) “Ayn Rand’s Headcheese” recipe. Listen or download the podcast here.
Growing Pains in Retrospect
In her new novel, The Adults, Alison Espach tells the story of one girl carefully stepping over that unbridgeable gap between childhood and adulthood, and nearly falling to pieces in…
Unsolicited Writing Advice You Want
Some advice for writers from our own Elissa Bassist: [Some of this is stolen. But I won’t tell you what because I want to impress you.]
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #83
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Unsolved Mysteries.
The Rumpus Interview with Jim Woodring
Cartoonist Jim Woodring is the creator of the surreal landscape starring characters Frank, Manhog and Pupshaw. Judging from Jim’s prolific blog, he shouldn’t have time for anything other than drawing.
WHERE I WRITE #6: Blood Red Desk
The top of the desk is blood. I mean red—dark red. But blood is my favorite color.
His Forked Voice Licked My Mortal Ears Clean
In The Flight Cage, Rebecca Dunham adopts and manipulates the personas of historical, usually literary, women to explore the various confinements and resistances that they—and by extension, all women—endure.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #70: A Motorcycle With No One On It
Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.
Temporary Shelter
Weston Cutter’s debut collection, You’d Be a Stranger, Too, delivers the magical click of excellent fiction.