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Woohoo! Lit podcast Drunken Odyssey has a new episode up in which host John King talks to our very own Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald.
Topics include Happy Baby, About Cherry, and bend-over boyfriends.
Plus it says right there on the site that Drunken Odyssey is “your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking,” so what are you waiting for?
...moreIf Roxane Gay’s recap didn’t fully satisfy your AWP thirst, get quenched with these snazzy photos of our event with McSweeney’s at 826 Boston headquarters!
...moreKickstarter interviewed our very own Stephen Elliott about Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus. A preview:
...moreThis time I’m going to edit the movie myself, with feedback from Kickstarter backers, and take as long as it takes.
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is raising funds for his next feature film, based on his acclaimed novel Happy Baby, and he needs your help!
The Rumpus is seeking applications for a dedicated internship position to assist Stephen and the movie’s producers with a crowd-source fundraising campaign.
...moreDon’t miss the trailer for Stephen Elliott’s film, About Cherry:
...moreLooking for beach reads?
The Atlantic asked a number of trusted writers and readers, including Sash Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott, to recommend books “that live up to the spirit of summer while still making us think.”
...moreRumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s About Cherry will make its New York premiere tomorrow!
The film is screening in the Northside Festival on Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at Brooklyn’s indieScreen. You can purchase tickets here.
...moreKALW Radio talks with Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott about his film Cherry and its portrayal of the San Francisco porn industry.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film where I felt that the adult film industry was represented. This is my community, so these are the people I hang out with.
...moreIn this review at SF Appeal, Violet Blue describes Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s Cherry as a “strong, complex” film that “unfolds through its layered relationships.” The movie made it’s North American premiere on Tuesday and will screen twice more as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Mistress, the second in a series of short movies based on the novel Happy Baby, directed by Stephen Elliott.
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One of the first times I had a real conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald was a couple of years ago at Mission Creek Café on Valencia Street in San Francisco. It was a Rumpus volunteer meeting—the site had no employees at that point—and he was trying to convince me to edit a massive transcript he was supposed to be sculpting into a zippy little interview for editor-in-chief Stephen Elliott.
This week in San Francisco: Finally muster the courage to hit on that one cute chick/dude at this month’s Monthly Rumpus, decorate your pad like it’s 1982 and you just got Walk Among Us at Pops’ Cheap Art Show: Skull Edition, get your nerd on at Techshop’s Open House, and check out SF Sketchfest.
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Even before a lending library copy of The Adderall Diaries arrived in my mailbox some time in the summer of 2009, I knew I’d be hooked. A colleague had recommended it, saying it was a gripping memoir that interwove threads of an edgy personal narrative and a murder trial.
This week Stephen Elliott is in town for the paperback release of The Adderall Diaries, Jonathan Franzen celebrates Freedom, Tao Lin brings Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment to BookCourt, Fashion takes you out on the town, Gigantic and Open City are home sweet home, and Nara premieres at the Asia Society.
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We had a fantastic Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco last week.
Couldn’t make it (don’t live in the Bay Area)? Don’t worry, Timothy Faust took some amazing photos of the wonderful evening that you can view after the jump.
...moreThis week: mutant cowboys at the Roxie, The Botany of Desire, a Litquake cocktail party, roller disco, and more film festival goodness!
Monday 7/19: Bounty hunters, vigilante justice, and good old fashioned wild west gun-slinging. The Dead and the Damned has all that and ravenous mutants, and it’s showing at the Roxie tonight as a part of SF IndieFest’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features all the underground fantasy, scifi, and horror films you could possibly want. Tickets $10-11.50, 9pm @ 3117 16th Street.
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Then she asked if it was strange that we were doing all these photo shoots as an excuse to sleep together because she was in a monogamous relationship.
Yes, I said, that part is strange.
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It was yet another awesome week for Rumpus Books. Click through for links to reviews, rants, interviews, and more.
A NIGHT TOGETHER: Presented by The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill
On April 6, The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill joined forces and presented a night of fiction, music, comedy and general mayhem at the Highline Ballroom. Despite the large size of the Highline, it was a remarkably cozy evening.
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While it is now one month later, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for ONE YEAR LATER, the Rumpus anniversary party co-presented by The Rumpus and sister-mag HTMLGIANT at Broadway East, a charming place where Chinatown meets the Lower East Side.
...more“Stephen Elliott: I don’t generally hook up with people when I first meet them. And also, when you’re on the road, I don’t know, it’s kind of awkward. What I long for when I travel isn’t sex, it’s intimacy. I don’t know if you can have intimacy with someone you just met.
...moreThis week, Rumpus Books reviewed a comic novel and a book that “straddles the line between fiction and poetry.” We also published a Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Kara Candito.
The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, tonight, January 21, 2010.
The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical guests Alina Simone, Diane Louvel, and Jeffrey Lewis.
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The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, on January 21, 2010.
The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical guests Alina Simone, Diane Louvel, and just added, Jeffrey Lewis.
...moreMorning, everyone.
We’ll start in Switzerland, where the traffic fines are based on your income. And in this case, that meant a $290,000 fine. In fairness, it sounds like he was a bit of a douche.
As someone who isn’t a full professor, but who does the teaching side of the job, I’d just like to point out that there’s another side to this story.
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‘Tis the season, so we’re taking a day or two off. Here are a few wonderful things from around the web to keep you busy (don’t worry, we’ll be back):
Stephen Elliott explores Christmas in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s an excerpt.
...moreIn the group homes, holidays weren’t so bad because we teenagers were all in the same parentless boat. Depending on the home, we would be given presents and there would be a nice meal.
This week in New York, lit mags The Faster Times, The Rumpus, Gigantic and Open City throw holiday parties, James Gallery holds Pornography in the City panel, Nick Flynn and Joseph Fasano read at Projection, LDM holds Holiday Episode, Stephen Elliott discusses the making of memoir, the Bloodsugars perform, Quentin Tarantino talks, Gabriel Orozco gets retrospectivized at MOMA, and the Madcap Manhattan series screens at Film Forum.
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