In 2003, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released “Nocturama.” I love almost every record The Bad Seeds have released, but with “Nocturama,” I was disappointed. I listened over and…
This novel is a delightfully raunchy tale. If you crave raunch; to be torn open and fucked up, The Death of Bunny Munro delivers. Munro has all the elements I…
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud,…
It’s Sunday, and, as always, The Rumpus is here to round up some blogs for you. Stephen King is waiting a month after the release of his new hardback to…
I’m hoping to God that it’s just temporary, but for whatever reason, the book blogs are suddenly all worried about ethics, whether it’s what to do about reading writers with…
The future and the past converge in this month’s art coverage. Fecal Face interviews Damon Soule about having multiple dreams at the same time. Gene Moreno and Ernesto Oroza tell…