Cave: This Is Not an Album Review
Psychedelic Rock and the Continuing Rebirth/Death Spiral of New Orleans
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Recession Sex Workers #3: The Passion of Apollo
The third in our series of interviews focusing on sex work during the recession.
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #14: Tailgating with Jesus
Lately, for my own edification and in preparation for the upcoming NFL season, I’ve been reading through the King James Bible.
An Inside Passage
Kurt Caswell’s award-winning essays channel Phillip Lopate and David Foster Wallace, while exploring the plight of a “mountain man” stuck in a paved-over world.
Paperback Writer: The Rumpus Interview With Michael Greenberg
The problem is that there is no clear path to literary success, no way to know what you’re supposed to do.
A Vestige Stirred By Light
The Next Settlement has a rock-solid American quality that compares favorably to William Carlos Williams. Think Plymouth and ocean waves constantly changing, hypnotic in part because of the mysteries beneath.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #22
Crazily enough, darling, I think you’re doing what you need to do.
“Everything Looks Different Today”
While there are The Last Book(s) I Loved, there are also The Books I Have Always Loved, among them "A Giacometti Portrait," written by James Lord in 1965.
Swinging Modern Sounds #13: On Loops
These lines depend on your having a working knowledge of the New York City suburbs.
Crown of Sonnets
An anthology of stories from the new Russia shows the continuity between contemporary writers and their canonical predecessors
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #2: Viper
Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995. Viper She told me how, as a girl, she slept each night with a different stuffed animal to make the…
Afghan Star: A Conversation with Tamim Ansary
Pop Idol has been widely imitated throughout the world [American Idol here in the states] , but Afghanistan is possibly the only place where the mere existence of a televised,…