The Black Minutes
A crime novel set in a fictional Mexican city delves into the unsolved murders of two decades.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #35: Waiting By the Phone
But of course you’d know. You always knew.
The Rumpus Interview with Josh Wolf
At an anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco in 2005, police and demonstrators clashed. Josh Wolf, then 23, videotaped the whole thing. When he refused to turn over his tapes to…
A Rich, Prickly Sense of Expansion
In A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, Becka Mara McKay reminds us that every language is a unique translation of a combination of desire and thought, both of which have…
10/40/70 #6: Punishment Park
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…
Missed Connections: The Rumpus Interview with Sophie Blackall
“Odd things happen in New York, which is why it’s such a great source of stories. Once I read a Missed Connection which took place on a train…”
From Old Notebooks
“As the writer wrestles with his book and his family, we reexamine our thoughts about the writer. It’s a performance in which writer and reader have equal billing.”
FUNNY WOMEN #23: Post-Apocalyptic American Girl Dolls
Meet Felicity! After the 2770 Rebellion of the Virginias, all of America (including American Swaziland) is controlled by the reanimated head of Senator Robert C. Byrd. Felicity thinks this is…
The Rumpus Review of 44 Inch Chest
This is a man’s world, where nothing is off-limits, and you’d better be able to dish it out, or you’re going to take an ungodly amount.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #34
PILGRIM PROMS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Pilgrim proms.
THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless
A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving
“Amnesia had long streaming hair bleached to a dazzling white and was always clad in black. Flying through the air she seemed like a Valkyrie warrior plunging down from Valhalla.”