June 2010
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Children’s Books Destroy Rainforests?
“Most of the top 10 children’s publishers have released at least one picture book containing paper fiber linked to the destruction of Indonesian rainforests.” Karen Springen has much to say about children’s books publishers and their efforts to go green.…
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The Surf Guru
Did you catch “The Candidate In Bloom,” a short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, that we posted yesterday? Interestingly enough, The Surf Guru is our Rumpus Book Club pick for July. Why not read the story,…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #18: The Math of Betrayal
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) The Math of Betrayal The math of betrayal my friends will never line up
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Rock and Roll, Harems, and Modern Love
Author and Rumpus contributor Jillian Lauren has written an excellent “Modern Love” column for the New York Times: “Finding Marriage Without Losing a Self.” Jillian’s story is a unique one, she lived in Borneo as a member of a royal…
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Rick and Jolie Have a Chat
“Music is like acupuncture–the exact same treatment, the exact same songs, even the exact same recording will move people, even the same people at different times, in very different ways.” Jolie Holland and Rick Moody are having a conversation about…
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Sometimes Still
In three different rooms on two coasts, artist Darren Almond is practicing visual alchemy. One thing he does is take long exposures on full moons in ridiculously remote locations. Another thing he does is capture time itself. The still above…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #6: Shanna Mahin
I live two hours and a lifetime away from Los Angeles. I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about that. My mother’s an actress, I told the kids on the playground, or my father is a producer, both marginally true…
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I Was the Jukebox
Sandra Beasley’s crisp images and multiplicities galore construct an enlivened world for her reader, bringing what Gregory Orr calls, “authority of imagination…” Each poem is an experiment that recreates from the codex of language a powerful brand of imagination.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #14: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Jeska Dzwigalski
This interview with Jessica (Jeska) Dzwigalski was conducted at 11:00am PST via GMail chat on June 19.
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Morning Coffee
What a tiny cabin. A very important discussion on birds and their terrorizing habits. Massimo Vitali takes epic beach photographs. I have been wondering for a while where my fins went. Ending close to where we began, is this the…
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Rumpus Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos, Director of Dogtooth
“I don’t go to the cinema to hear these clichés about life—something you say to someone so that they can move on.”