The Rumpus.net » Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Fri, 25 May 2012 07:01:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Among Friends http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-politics-of-competitive-board-gaming-among-friends/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-politics-of-competitive-board-gaming-among-friends/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 15:48:10 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100955 A ten minute documentary by Jay Cheel shot over the course of a month of playing Settlers of Catan with friends. A fascinating short film that stays true to its title.

 

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Here’s an interview with Dean Spade, a legal scholar and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, about the CeCe McDonald case.

Here is the less favorable writeup in the local paper.

There is a letter writing campaign for people who want to write CeCe while she is in jail.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/have-you-heard-about-cece-mcdonald/feed/ 0 You Know Exactly What You Have To Do http://therumpus.net/2012/05/you-know-exactly-what-you-have-to-do/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/you-know-exactly-what-you-have-to-do/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 03:43:27 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100605 Did you know you can purchase a print straight from the author of this week’s All Over Coffee?

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/you-know-exactly-what-you-have-to-do/feed/ 0 Time for the rich to give back http://therumpus.net/2012/05/time-for-the-rich-to-give-back/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/time-for-the-rich-to-give-back/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:23:36 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100600 Tax me for fuck’s sake! Stephen King scolds the superrich, including himself, for not giving back.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny.

Mr. King, keeping it real.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/time-for-the-rich-to-give-back/feed/ 1 This Week’s Letter http://therumpus.net/2012/05/this-weeks-letter/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/this-weeks-letter/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:01 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100598 This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Claire Bidwell Smith.

Claire is an experienced therapist, specializing in grief counseling, and the author of the  memoir The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin/Hudson St., February 2012).

Gina Frangello interviewed Claire for The Rumpus earlier this year. Here’s a review of Claire’s memoir in The Faster Times.

More about Letters In The Mail here.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/this-weeks-letter/feed/ 0 The next Letter In The Mail: Janet Fitch http://therumpus.net/2012/04/the-next-letter-in-the-mail-janet-fitch/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/the-next-letter-in-the-mail-janet-fitch/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:33:55 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100215

Our next Letter In The Mail is from Janet Fitch.

Janet Fitch is the author of White Oleander and Paint It Black. In college she studied Russian history and was an exchange student at age twenty-one when she decided she wanted to write fiction.

Here are Janet’s ten rules for writers from the Los Angeles Times. Here she reads a section from Paint It Black for KQED Arts. And here’s Oprah interviewing Janet in 2006.

More about Letters In The Mail.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/04/public-sex-private-lives/feed/ 0 Pen Poetry Series http://therumpus.net/2012/04/pen-poetry-series/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/pen-poetry-series/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:24:57 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=100065 Once a week the Pen Poetry Series publishes work by new and established writers. This week they’re featuring Jenny Zhang: Dear Jenny, We Are All Find.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/04/pen-poetry-series/feed/ 0 This Week’s Letter In The Mail http://therumpus.net/2012/04/this-weeks-letter-in-the-mail-2/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/this-weeks-letter-in-the-mail-2/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:26:48 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=99911

This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Tao Lin.

Tao is the author of six books including the novel Richard Yates, the novella Shoplifting From American Apparel. He is the founder of the literary press Muumuu house.

Here is a review of Richard Yates from The London Review of Books. Here’s an interview The Rumpus Book Club did with Tao Lin. And here’s Tao Lin’s blog.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/04/this-weeks-letter-in-the-mail-2/feed/ 0 Letters Of Note http://therumpus.net/2012/04/letters-of-note/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/letters-of-note/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:52:55 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=99922 Charles Bukowski, then seventy years old, discusses the art of writing in a letter to his friend William Packard.

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