The Waitress on the Ukulele: A Short History of the Folk Opera
“To me folk music is about storytelling, and opera is about storytelling, so there’s no contradiction at all.”
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The Country Where No One Ever Dies
The Albanian, in Ornela Vorpsi’s comic novel, is someone prone to megalomania, and who has one obsession “dearer to them than death… Fornication.”
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #20
NONPROFITS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing nonprofits.
The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic on the Danube
Sasa Stanisic was born in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and lived there until 1992, at which point his family fled the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. He currently resides in Germany.…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #20: Fumble Recovery
What was the best play made by a wide receiver during last weekend’s NFL playoff games? Hint: it wasn’t a touchdown catch. Last Saturday night, during the Indianapolis Colts-Baltimore Ravens matchup, Colts…
Fucking and Writing: The Rumpus Conversation with Jami Attenberg
“Perhaps we should talk about fucking. Fucking and writing, fucking and talking, fucking and thinking, fucking and whatever else it is that fucking goes with…”
Swinging Modern Sounds #19: One Recent Example of Talent
“Talent” is from the Greek for a certain weight of gold, because, I suppose, people who had a lot of it seemed to be metaphorically wealthy. Here’s one example I…
The Sports Talk Radio Election
Okay, so lots of confusion and grief and gnashing of teeth out there over why my adopted state, Massachusetts, just elected a Republican nudie model to fill the seat once…
A Kidnapping in Haiti
“In a few weeks, the international media will leave the country, and Americans will be free to forget about Haiti once again. It is my hope that this story will…
The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
The Eyeball #31: The Baader Meinhof Complex
On New Year’s Day this year I removed all the bookmarks from my Firefox bookmarks bar. When I mentioned to a couple friends that my resolution was to lay off…