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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #16
AVATAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Avatar.
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Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood Get Evangelical
At a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel.
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The Rumpus Holiday Internet Roundup
‘Tis the season, so we’re taking a day or two off. Here are a few wonderful things from around the web to keep you busy (don’t worry, we’ll be back):
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Lie to Me
The latest memoir of the 2008 Presidential campaign is a fake book about fake events by a fake political operative.
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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #1: György Dragomán on the Danube
“For me writing is indeed very close to collection, but it is not a process of collection, much rather a way for cataloging your collection.”
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The Bigness of the World
There’s a lot to smile at in The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund’s Flannery O’Conner Award-winning collection—but there aren’t a lot of jokes. In fact, over the course of a dozen stories, Ostlund presents all kinds of suffering: death,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #15
POWDERED WIGS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing powdered wigs.
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Pete Seeger–The Voice that Belongs to the Body
He picked me up at the Cold Spring train station: a tall, lone and gawky, slightly bent, grizzled, yet still unmistakable figure at the other end of the platform shading his blue eyes from the rain.
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“I tried to remember your scent as your own”
A collection like Ohio Violence is best consumed in small doses, so that its imaginative density, which is never ponderous, can be absorbed.
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #10: Hobo Chant, LaFayette, Louisiana, 1937
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Hobo Chant, LaFayette, Louisiana, 1937 dem coals inside your chest dem coals is hot and white you gotta change your mackacheese if you wanna be ma wife
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The Rumpus Review of 35 Shots of Rum
Possibly the most humanistic character study from director Claire Denis: thoughtful, endearing, and rendered with exemplary tact.