The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #2
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Welcome to the continuing Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads…
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June 2010
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Woods’ At Echo Lake
Recalling those famed sandwiches of chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker goodness enjoyed around a crackling campfire, aptly named folkie lo-fi musicians Woods bring back your campfire days.
The New Yorker’s One Over 40
A special Rumpus lamentation with possible added pep talk. *** So last week the New Yorker published their once-a-decade Fiction Issue, in which they printed eight stories, along with their…
Voyage Fantastique vol.3 (The Minimum Lethal Dose)
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967). Volume 3: L’immunologie. Les cancers.
Notable New York, This Week 6/14 – 6/20
This week in New York Stephen Colbert celebrates Ulysses, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are King and Queen of the Mermaid Parade, Heidi Julavits interviews Aimee Bender at Symphony Space,…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Fuck it, Doug. I’m sick of renting and this place is super affordable. Well if this whole “used to be an Indian burial ground” thing bums you out so much,…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/14-6/20
This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting! Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the…
On Beating Writer’s Block
“It operates in marginal subcultures and it stars determined though hapless dreamers… It pits the art of violence against the violence of art.” Katherine Dunn – who ostensibly dematerialized after…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #7: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Pete Schwartz
Pete Schwartz lives in Downington, Pennsylvania. He works for IKON Office Solutions. This interview was conducted via gmail chat at 2:00 EST on June 10.
A Certain Version of Bret Easton Ellis
Carolyn Kellogg, lead writer for the LA Times blog Jacket Copy, describes her experience interviewing Bret Easton Ellis and the strange routine he went through with nearly every reporter he…