Ted Wilson Reviews the World #202
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Toucan Sam.
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Letter To The Editor
From last week's Weekly Rumpus. Each week we try to feature at least one Letter To The Editor.
All Over Coffee #653, Inspired by the writing of Donald Barthelme
"He wonders how often she's been lying or telling half-truths."
The Sunday Rumpus Review: Something Wrong with Her by Cris Mazza
Mazza wants to raise the issue prominently, but not to resolve it. In a way, she seeks to create for us the discomfort, the lack of resolution she feels in her own life.
Saturday Rumpus Comic: Meta Nail Art
Our Saturday Editor contributes a meta-comic for your viewing and reading pleasure.
SONGS OF OUR LIVES: THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE’S “LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER”
These songs became the soundtrack to my primordial memories not because I liked them, not because my parents necessarily liked them, but simply because one of my parents had turned on the radio
The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Michaels
Jesse Michaels, former member of the punk bands Operation Ivy, Big Rig, and Common Rider, chats about his first novel, the thin line between fact and fiction, and how to turn off the voices in your head that scream "I'm nuts!" and "I'm shit!"
The Last Movie I Loved: Stories We Tell
If you’re reading this now, you’ve probably slept through enough nights to know what it is to wake up to the absence of someone you loved. The ache of without seems to spread forth from within to taint the day, and all the days, ahead.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Five
Being unable to play his favorite instrument anymore broke his heart, but while his injured hand couldn’t perform the delicate gesticulations of a violinist, it was not a hindrance in the blunt-force job of offensive lineman.
Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Patricia McConnel
Patricia McConnel, who served time in a federal prison in the 1950s, sits down to talk about her past, and about Sing Soft, Sing Loud
HEAVY-HANDED: Past-Due
Look, I am simply trying to convey to you that I am both confident in myself and supportive of those around me.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Brenda Hillman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Brenda Hillman about trance work, glintings, and radical animism in Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the last in a tetralogy of books about the four elements.