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PJ Harvey Tuesday #1: “Henry Lee”
Now that Nick Cave Mondays have drawn to a close, the obvious next step is PJ Harvey Tuesdays.
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Government Shut Down Round-Up
This is the first federal government shut down in 17 years! Here is a break down in who goes to work and who stays home. Even if the shut down is resolved, whether or not to raise the debt ceiling…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The perpetually under construction Sagrada Familia is almost almost done, but you can see what it will look like TODAY. Here are some pointless diagrams for you. Let us now discuss Jim Henson’s proposed nightclub and other 60s oddities. Which…
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Getting Out of the Slush Pile
Want to get out of the slush pile and onto the pages of your favorite publications? Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn has some seriously wise words for you over at her Daily Dot column. One of the wisest bits comes from…
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“I Am One of Them”
Crossing Over, a documentary by director Isabel Castro, follows three transgender women—all of them undocumented Mexican immigrants—as they seek asylum in the US. “Although this started as a project to raise awareness about the complexities of immigration,” Castro told Buzzfeed,…
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Literary Geniuses Say Some Not-So-Genius Things
In “honor” of David Gilmour’s comments to a Hazlitt interviewer about how he refused to teach books by female authors, Rumpus contributor Michelle Dean rounded up some other literary men’s contributions to the field of misogyny. From Hemingway blaming all men’s…
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The Power of Negative Reviews
Lee Siegel, author of two collections of criticism, confesses that for years, he earned a living writing negative book reviews. His piece, “Burying the Hatchet: The Death of the Negative Book Review,” describes the negative review as one that implies…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #201
BREAKING BAD ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Breaking Bad.
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TV Can Be Literature Too
Long-running, writer-driven shows have overtaken American cinema as the most prestigious strand of American visual culture, revealing most of even the supposedly best American movies as risk-averse, unimaginative, and hopelessly bound by their time constraints. Todd Hasak-Lowy argues on the Believer‘s blog…
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“The Sheer Fun of Researching” Cults
Sociologist Susan Palmer studies new religious movements—“cults,” as the rest of us might call them—not out of morbid fascination or a desire to catalog their evils, but because she considers them “beautiful life forms, mysterious and pulsating with charisma.” Of…
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Under the Table
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
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Awesome Free Lit Fest Alert: Page Turner in Brooklyn
If you’re going to be in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 5, you won’t want to miss the Page Turner Literary Festival, a celebration of all corners of Asian American culture presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. It’ll feature events…