2011
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An Interview with Jon Raymond
Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set and filmed in his home state of Oregon. In addition,…
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To Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find it almost impossible to conceptualize life in terms of time…
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Pseudonymously Famous
What happens when a book is shortlisted for the Orwell prize and its author chooses to remain pseudonymous? Possibly, the beginning of a new canon. “Strictly speaking this isn’t anonymity but pseudonymity – and while whole books have been written…
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Artistic Oppression
Where mythologizing dictators and threatening artists intersect, totalitarian art was born. Find out about this cultural phenomenon and its many historical/contemporary examples. “The crucial element in the creation of totalitarian culture was the involvement of the state, not indirectly, through…
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Bay Area
If you live in the Bay Area this is what you should be doing tonight: Paul Madonna, author of All Over Coffee, beloved comics editor here at The Rumpus, and esteemed creator of haunting illustrations and poetic artistry, has created…
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No Trace of Origin, No Thorn
The poems in Copperhead use the deeply wrought questions with which it is concerned to wisely come up with a sort of memoir, which is attaching deeply felt memories with deeply felt language, thus making it literature.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sup with all these tornadoes, bros? Behold the Google pedicab. Serbian children are way more surreal than you or I (this is assuming that you are not a Serbian child). Emotion-based drawing machines are pretty cute. If I am reading…
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National Poetry Month, Day 29: “I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It” by Ariana Reines
I’m a Poet and I Don’t Know It I am so broke Maybe I am a poet I wonder.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
Friends with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee, witness to 27 revolutions, and journalist of the century in his native Poland–Ryszard Kapuscinski, many believe, was unlucky not to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature before his death in 2007.
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The Argentine Peso
Are you over the age of 65? Have you published at least five books (with ISBN numbers) or “invested more than 20 years in ‘literary creation’”? If your answer to both questions is “yes,” you may want to consider moving…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The while iPhone 4, unicorn of the consumer electronics world, hit shelves today after months of delays. Will it cause a spike in sales? What does the device have to say about all this? And what does South Park think…