Bobcat Country
Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying “Should I be reading this?” queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is…
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10/40/70 #4: Cleo from 5 to 7
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…
The Baffler 2.0
Can a resuscitated left-wing publication—a print publication!—thrive in the hostile economic conditions of 2010? The editors of The Baffler are betting it can.
Happy Now?
A debut novel about a young husband’s suicide explores the pain, confusion, absurdity, and even humor of grief.
FUNNY WOMEN #22: My Life as Performance Art–An Exhibition
“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.” – Marina Abramovic
Swinging Modern Sounds #21: On William Basinski
William Basinski was born in Texas in 1958, and, after a childhood playing wind instruments, he became in the early-eighties a composer of ambient and minimalist compositions.
Water the Moon
In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #32
CHUCK MURPHY REVIEWS THE WORLD ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing “Chuck Murphy Reviews the…
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #10: Last Exit to Hollywood, The Passing Fancy of Allenina Wong
When you have a gender, you enjoy certain privileges. You don’t get stared at, laughed at, egged or beat up on the street because of how you appear.
Other Lubrication: The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Keck
Kevin Keck is the author of the contagious, THC-laden memoirs Oedipus Wrecked, and Are You There God? It’s Me, Kevin. Inside my copy of his collected poems titled My Summer…
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #1
“Chuck Prophet Writes the Songs That Make, Well, Not the Whole World, But a Small, Statistically Insignificant Portion of it Sing”
Misadventure
Millard Kaufman’s posthumously published novel evokes noir films of the past in the contemporary labyrinth of Los Angeles.