2011
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“Baghdad Country Club”
Rumpus bud Josh Bearman tells the tale of the Baghdad Country Club. You can preview the story before scooping it up at The Atavist and check out an excerpt here. “Welcome to a place where even beer runs are a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New York City cops in the 1970s. “How Much More Do Books Cost Today?” Old dude dancing to contemporary music.
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All Over Coffee #564Collaboration with Matthew Dickman
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and poet Matthew Dickman. Click here to view. …more
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Cinema’s Occupy Zeitgeist
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes explores the “Occupy zeitgeist” in 2011 cinema over at Filmmaker. Rombes reveals how films such as Drive, Meek’s Cutoff, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Tree of Life, while seemingly “far removed” from the movement, “speak to…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: As If It Were The First Time
Cass McCombs Humor Risk (Domino) The thing I have noticed about Cass McCombs, or rather the thing I think is a telling parallel to his music, is that he never really looks the same in pictures.
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Record Related #2: Wild Flag, Wild Flag, Wild Flag
Wild Flag, S/T (Merge) / live at The Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 10/18/11 Eleanor Friedberger, best known as half of The Fiery Furnaces, sings the ultra-catchy, ’70s-damaged “My Mistakes.”
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The Last Book I Loved: Play It As It Lays
I love this book because it’s hard and true. It scares and haunts me.
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #4: Reading Didion
Great writers wound us. Their words cut into our bodies; their ideas become notions of ourselves. Cue Joan Didion. She stitches sentences through your brain. You emerge exhausted and charged — agreeing, disagreeing and questioning. Reading Didion invites a…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter
I realize I’m especially drawn to memoirs, novels and story collections in which the author or protagonist is at odds with one parent or both, and wrestles with feeling like a tremendous disappointment to them.
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“La Femme Rouge: Redux,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Veronica Golos
La Femme Rouge: Redux (Red Riding Hood, Aged) What I know is more than thorn and thistle, whistling through an oak forest, trees large as barns.
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Somewhere Below the Solar Plexus of Her
What does it take for a person to kill a living thing, then a human being? Why are the truths of war silenced?