The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Joseph Harrington
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Joseph Harrington about his recent collection Things Come On.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Jena Osman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Jena Osman about her collection The Network.
Zak Smith in Conversation with Sean McCarthy
Zak Smith: There’s a lot of “stoner” art being made these days–like some half-assed faux-naive drawing of a yeti riding a bicycle into a bee’s butt or something. Your work isn’t like that–yet it does seem to have something to do with the kind of doom/stoner metal being put out by like Sleep or Electric Wizard or Monster Magnet back when they were good–can you talk about this stoner aesthetic or mood? About paranoia? About hallucination, paranoia, altered perceptions of time–anything like that?
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers
The Gregory Brothers, a Brooklyn-based quartet, remix speeches and news clips using an audio processor called Auto-Tune to create catchy musical news mash-ups that Rachel Maddow dubs “newsicals.” By auto-tuning the voices of politicians, pundits, and TV journalists like Katie Couric, the Gregory Brothers have produced a YouTube phenomenon that makes history accessible and entertaining to people who might not ordinarily tune in to news shows or the History Channel.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview with Dan Baum
Over the past few days, ex-New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum has received a lot of attention by rehashing the details of his dismissal in 140-character Twitter missives.
I spoke with Dan Baum via email about his decision to use Twitter as the form for his tale.
...more“Stripping is as much a part of who I am as my Ph.D.”
$pread‘s Will Rockwell takes a stroll with Craig Seymour in New York’s Lower East Side to get the dish on the debut of Seymour’s recently released memoir, All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
The Rumpus Interview with David Wain
Here are a few things to know about David Wain that will help you get the most out of this interview:
- David Wain is (in no hierarchical order) a director, producer, writer, actor, mensch, and other important nouns.
- He directed and co-wrote (with Paul Rudd) Role Models, which is finally out on DVD.