2011
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: A Visit from the Goon Squad Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory
Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was still working. When I asked him for an interview, he…
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Trampoline Hall Lecture Series in SF!
The Toronto-based Trampoline Hall Lecture series (where people lecture on subjects outside their area of expertise) is on tour. The series’ founder, Sheila Heti, has got a book out with Misha Glouberman called The Chairs are Where the People Go.…
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A Grittier Acknowledgement of What We’re Up Against: A Sugar Addendum
I meant to say there is no cure except to live the hell out of our lives, to take it apart, to put it back together, to dig it all up, and then fill the hole.
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Albums of Our Lives: Sound of Genesis’ Journey to the Moon
The Space Age drifted all around me: Major Matt Mason toys in various heroic poses on the basement floor, plastic red-and-blue rockets ascending and landing, the interstellar playing out under the pool table as astral 45s by Eumir Deodato…
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Like Algae on the Surface of Grace
There is a feeling of complicity in his [Dlugos’s] best poems in that he makes the reader love the burnished, tumultuous late nights and affection for those around him.
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John Sayles’ New Film
John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie is about “a village mayor caught in the murderous cross-fire…
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Maureen Miller: The Last Book I Loved, 2030
Three years ago this spring I gave myself one Sunday afternoon off from self-pity to indulge in some window-shopping. A movie rental place among the sporadic cush boutiques of a “turning” avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn first caught my guilt-trap.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First let’s all take a moment to appreciate the steepest roller coaster in the world. Now then, let’s talk about space! Oh my gosh, look at this comet hit the sun! Astronauts can’t whistle. There are all sorts of places…
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The Poetry Book Club Interviews Harmony Holiday
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Harmony Holiday about her debut collection Negro League Baseball.
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Sugar’s Identity Revealed?
Walter Green, genius designer behind the original Write Like a Motherfucker logo, takes a stab at Sugar’s true identity.