A MODERN READER #3: Extreme Solitude
I have largely avoided The New Yorker’s Fiction section. The stories were about aging women who lived on Cape Cod, or they were set in developing countries. I don’t want…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is widely regarded, not pejoratively, as an “unclassifiable” novelist.
FUNNY WOMEN #27: An Author Answers Her Fan Mail
That’s what we authors are always working for, that personal connection with the reader. It’s what makes all the unpaid hours, mostly spent blogging for a book deal, worthwhile.
Boys and Girls Like You and Me
“The earth was crowded with people who would never try to find me if I disappeared. A person is missing only if another person misses them.”
Something Steely, Unsympathetic, and Cold: A Reconsideration of Mary Poppins
Something horrible is coming to 17 Cherry Tree Lane.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #41
SANTA CLAUS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Santa Claus.
Not Safe For Work
Today, I realize the truth — that it is not sex work that society fears is dangerous, but sex workers. I recently had the experience at my job of being…
Swinging Modern Sounds #24: A Magician of the Highest Degree
The millennium is not very old, it’s true, and yet today is the day on which I feel obliged to anoint a best song of the millennium, and to risk…
SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #4: Bumpin’ Uglies with the Beautiful People
Today’s battle pits Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James against How To Have A XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide by the…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #17: Cry Timber
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Cry Timber I am long tired of the tyranny of trees
How to Catch a Falling Knife
It is not easy to make interesting poems, yet How to Catch a Falling Knife is full of them. Part of the interest is apparent in the work the title…