The Rumpus.net » Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sun, 27 May 2012 16:41:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A Few Words from Maurice Sendak http://therumpus.net/2012/05/a-few-words-from-maurice-sendak/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/a-few-words-from-maurice-sendak/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 15:43:09 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=101304 “I had a cartoon in my high school newspaper magazine. Terrible, terrible shit.”

A sneak preview of The Comics Journal’s interview with Maurice Sendak.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/a-few-words-from-maurice-sendak/feed/ 0 “Fuck Friday Night Lights“ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/buzz-bissinger/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/buzz-bissinger/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 17:01:35 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=100810 “It’s just very hard when you write something that young and it becomes that successful, for reasons of luck, or having the right timing or the right execution. I was 35, and now, at 57, I hear someone mention that book virtually once a day. It was not the best book I ever wrote.”

Mother Jones talks with Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights. (Interview conducted by Rumpus alumnus, and all-around rock star, Maddie Oatman.)

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/05/buzz-bissinger/feed/ 0 Horn! Reviews http://therumpus.net/2012/04/99857/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/99857/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:26:45 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=99857 HORN! REVIEWS: <br />WildHORN! REVIEWS:
Wild

Kevin Thomas reviews our March Rumpus Book Club selection, Cheryl Strayed’s WILD, Rumpus-Comics style.

[Sidenote: We believe this is the best review to date of Cheryl's wildly (see what we did there?) successful book. Granted, we're biased, but whose beliefs aren't?]

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/04/99857/feed/ 0 “That’s where my muse puts her foot down.” http://therumpus.net/2012/04/thats-where-my-muse-puts-her-foot-down/ http://therumpus.net/2012/04/thats-where-my-muse-puts-her-foot-down/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:15:46 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=99766 An oldie but a goodie: Nick Cave on why he won’t appear in a Gap commercial.

(via @LettersOfNote)

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Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about his backpack (you’ll see).

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/04/worn-stories/feed/ 0 “The courts were our family’s livelihood…” http://therumpus.net/2012/03/the-courts-were-our-familys-livelihood/ http://therumpus.net/2012/03/the-courts-were-our-familys-livelihood/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:35:04 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=98972 “Yet for Wallace, tennis entails intense aloneness, standing seventy-eight feet away from one’s opponent, warring within and against one’s own brain. Tennis represents an entirely individual struggle to wrest control from the mind: to be at once fully conscious of oneself and yet able to stop thinking.”

A Paris Review essay by A-J Aronstein about growing up, tennis, and David Foster Wallace.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/03/the-courts-were-our-familys-livelihood/feed/ 0 Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee http://therumpus.net/2012/03/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-365/ http://therumpus.net/2012/03/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-365/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:20 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=98969 Oh no! It’s the chimpanzee police!

When I am rich, I too will have a shark-filled atrium.

The Japan Animals’ School.

Who is @MCBangarang?

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/03/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-365/feed/ 0 Sugar Face http://therumpus.net/2012/02/sugar-face/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/sugar-face/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:12:28 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=98483 We’ve posted a new Dear Sugar! Hooray!

Today’s column is the first to go live since it was announced that Sugar is, in fact, author Cheryl Strayed. As a celebration we’re revealing the full shot that the usual Sugar photo is cropped from. Yes, those hands holding snow (yes, it’s snow, not sugar) we’re all so familiar with are Cheryl’s.

So here it is, the full photograph (starring Sugar’s sweet, sweet face):

Melts your heart, don’t it?

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/sugar-face/feed/ 9 DFW http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dfw/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dfw/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:19:37 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=98249 Today is David Foster Wallace’s birthday. He would have been 50 years old.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dfw/feed/ 0 Stephen Elliott in Berlin http://therumpus.net/2012/02/stephen-elliott-in-berlin/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/stephen-elliott-in-berlin/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:11:49 +0000 Isaac Fitzgerald http://therumpus.net/?p=97905 Director and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott has been spotted (proudly sporting his Rumpus tattoo) alongside actress Ashley Hinshaw in Berlin. Elliott and Hinshaw are both in Germany for the international premier of Cherry. Click here to learn more about the film.

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