This is More than Poetry.
Grotesquery is the nature of the humor in The Black Automaton.… [Douglas] Kearney leads the reader through laughter at the unchangeable rottenness of life, rather than throwing a tearful pity…
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10/40/70 #8: The Foreigner
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Nothing But Trouble: Hookers & Memoir
The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Benderson
The Romanian is an enthralling memoir about Benderson’s consuming affair with a male hustler he encountered in Budapest, while doing research. I wondered about that timeless troll, desire, and how…
FUNNY WOMEN #25: Next to Famous
I live down the street from a real life celebrity: not one of those fake celebrities who’s won a Nobel Prize or appeared in the local newspaper because she raised…
Pitt on Parker
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #36
TRACING PAPER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tracing paper.
Dear Dr. Thompson: The Rumpus Interview with Matthew L. Moseley
That’s what Hunter would have really wanted for people to understand, how one little letter can change your life.
Pedal Pusher
A popular cycling blog spawns a humorous book about mental and physical survival on big city streets.
The Drunk Sonnets
Like most winning drunken acts, The Drunk Sonnets is comprised of extremes. I came away from each poem thinking it was either the best damn thing I’d read in years…
The Rumpus Review of Kick-Ass
If the sight of a 10-year-old girl acrobatically and graphically hacking up a roomful of muscle-bound drug dealers makes you squirm, then Kick-Ass is not your kind of film. Also,…
Plrknib: A Tale of Stand-Up Comedy
Cincinnati, 1980. In late November on a Sunday morning my mother burned something she was cooking and the smoke alarm went off. And the joke was there – right there…