The Rumpus.net » Juliet Litman http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Fri, 25 May 2012 19:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 No One Crafts a Soundtrack Like Wes http://therumpus.net/2009/02/no-one-crafts-a-soundtrack-like-wes/ http://therumpus.net/2009/02/no-one-crafts-a-soundtrack-like-wes/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:00:33 +0000 Juliet Litman http://therumpus.net/?p=8227 folderThe funny thing about Wes Anderson is that it’s both hard to imagine yet simultaneously all too obvious why he is wildly popular in some milieus, hardly known in others, and wholly eschewed in a third circle. A recent interview with Mr. Anderson from Filter Magazine pointedly asks the writer/director about the relative success of his first film Bottle Rocket, what it’s like working with the brothers Wilson, and the merits of being a “cult” favorite. The Filter interview also begins to explain how the music plays into Anderson’s larger vision for each film. If only it told us what musical gems we had to look forward to in his upcoming project.

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Susannah Breslin
Margaret Cho
T Cooper
Ron English
James Frey
Jaclyn Friedman
Malcolm Gladwell
Danny Goldberg
Andrew Sean Greer
Van Jones
General Lawrence Nkunda
Jack Pendarvis
Princess Superstar
Mary Roach
Bucky Sinister
Steven Soderbergh
Tristan Taormino
Dean Wareham
Lawrence Wechsler

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Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
American America by Ethan Canin
The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo
A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
Writing in the Dark by David Grossman
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Vienna Triangle by Brenda Webster
Stoner by John Williams

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2009/01/che-debates-rage-on/feed/ 0 Janet Malcolm on a Small Body of Early Twentieth Century Fiction http://therumpus.net/2009/01/janet-malcolm-on-a-small-body-early-twentieth-century-fiction/ http://therumpus.net/2009/01/janet-malcolm-on-a-small-body-early-twentieth-century-fiction/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:56:06 +0000 Juliet Litman http://therumpus.net/?p=4559 Janet Malcolm reaches into the archives of her childhood and discusses a hardly-known American novelist in an essay from the New York Review of Books. Malcolm reviews seven novels by Gene Stratton-Porter, who, for obvious reasons, Malcolm presumed to be a man. However, the gender of this author was not the only circulating misconception. Geneva Stratton-Porter “was a plump, bossy woman of enormous energy and enterprise.” Though some may think of her as a champion of the environment and nature, she is in fact far more like John Calvin than John Muir. As Malcolm’s survey of Stratton-Porter’s fiction reveals, this authoress was a champion of the Protestant work ethic and a staunch proponent of female propiety. Stratton-Porter’s work varied in quality, but her work is united by her uniquely capitalistic view of the formerly bucolic America.

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NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost.

The blog of unnecessary quotation marks.

Bulgaria v. Czech Republic, a hoax sculpture sparks a diplomatic spat.

LIFE photos.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s inauguration novella.

The ten creepiest old ads.

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