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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…
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The Poem You’re Not Quite Writing
Helen Mort, the five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, discusses her creative process in an interview with Granta. “I’m visited by an idea that won’t go away and I often carry it around for months. The shapes of…
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/30 – 10/6
Monday 9/30: Linda Lambert reads from and signs The Cairo Codex. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Book Bound is a mobile library where you can trade one of your books for one of theirs, or get additional books for a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look, this 10 year old girl just accidentally created a new molecule. Similarly, the earth just accidentally created this island. Perhaps you have wondered how the blind perceive race. What are you doing here, on this island, crab? What…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Abby Geni
“A friend of mine at Iowa once compared the program to electroshock therapy—it’s good for you, it reorganizes your thinking, and you’d never want to do it again.” Welcome to the strange and fascinating world of Rumpus Book Club author,…
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Lit-Link Round-up
Abby Geni of The Rumpus Book Club will be chatting with club members tomorrow…today we have the phenomenal Karen Bender talking with Abby to wet your whistle. (Um, I think I have been waiting my whole life for a chance…
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Cost of Living
Anna March explains why THE COST OF LIVING by Rob Roberge is the last book she loved.
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WHEN A MILLENNIAL KILLS
Mike Lacher’s “Our Killer Appears to Be a Millennial” describes a half-baked plan to find a killer (who is between the ages of 18 and 35 and always connected to his mobile device) by using content “that feels authentically shareable–…