Jay Boss Rubin: The Last Book (Collection) I Loved, The Ken Kesey Collection
What would the man who said, “I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph,” think about becoming a museum piece?The quote, by Ken Kesey, appears in the first chapter of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid...
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States of Mystery
Generation after generation leapfrogging west across wild young America . . . driven by a dream of a place where the water tastes like wine:This Springfield water tastes like turpentine,I’m goin’ down...
View ArticleFamous Writers with Weird Jobs
Did you know that Chuck Palahniuk worked as a bike messenger? Or that both Stephen King and Ken Kesey worked as janitors? Or that Charles Dickens labeled jars in a shoe factory? Electric Literature has...
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How Gone Is My Valley?
The gaping disparity between the Santa Clara Valley I know and the object of popular fantasy came into relief the moment I saw the billboard. On Sunset Boulevard, not far from my Los Angeles home, it...
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The Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec
Mila Jaroniec’s Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover is a speedball, a mood book that’s fast and bleary, clear and true. Jaroniec describes her debut as “a road novel with no road,” as the unnamed narrator...
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Healthcare
Health insurance in America may not be perfect, or even close to, but Barack Obama brought us nearer to a fair system that allows access to healthcare for more Americans than we’d ever been. The new...
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Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.
Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez was a member of the rap group Das Racist, which had hits like “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and “hahahaha jk” that mixed Dada sensibilities with straight-up hip-hop....
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