June 2012
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About Cherry Opens in New York
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s About Cherry will make its New York premiere tomorrow! The film is screening in the Northside Festival on Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at Brooklyn’s indieScreen. You can purchase tickets here.
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What He Took
It’s two in the morning on the OB ward. Light filters into our dark room from the hallway, making a dim twilight around bassinet and bed. My first child, Emily, is twenty-seven hours old.
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Wendy MacNaughton Goes to Death Valley
Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton kept an illustrated diary of her “short, no frills” road trip through Death Valley for AFAR Magazine. Join MacNaughton for the opening of her ExtraOrdinary show at The Curiosity Shoppe (855 Valencia Street) tomorrow…
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Mark Ellis: The Last Book I Loved, I Am Ozzy
As a lifelong Ozzy fan, I scarfed down his memoir like a stoner polishing off a bag of Doritos. I Am Ozzy turned out to be a pretty good read, at least that’s what I thought. A week after finishing…
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Double Shadow by Carl Phillips
Double Shadow seems to find the poet at mid-breath, or in a time of transition where the voice may be in flux from previous work; but the watchful eye, and the careful hand that crafts these verses, is still ever-present.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“If an intelligent life form has built a spaceship, there’s the question of ‘why not make it out of stone or coral?’” Good question. Is there an alien spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic? In scientific search for the perfect pop…
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Juneteenth
In honor of Juneteenth, The Root investigates “the blurred line of emancipation in America,” from 1883 through the present. Feministing breaks down the wording of the Emancipation Proclamation, shedding light on “the legacy language of race talk.”
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Rumpus Sound Takes:
Passionate ImpasseThe Men Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones) If we were to come up with a taxonomy of ways people praise music, a lot of the categories would surely focus on some extramusical rupture the record caused.
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Jay Gatsby’s Back
Jay McInerney explains why the American classic The Great Gatsby, the last book that Hannah Kingsley-Ma and Kate Geiselman loved, is making a resurgence this year. After all, Jimmy Gatz “invents a hero called Jay Gatsby and then inhabits this creation, just as…
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Roxane Gay’s Tattoos
Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay is featured today on Pen & Ink, a new Tumblr from our own Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton. Check out Roxane’s seven arm tattoos, and the story behind them.
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Chuck Palahniuk’s “victims of his gore-filled prose”
On June 11, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke, published Invisible Monsters Remix, a director’s cut of the novel in which “the reader is made to jump back and forth to different chapters rather than read in a linear…
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The Rumpus Review of Excision
Equal parts polished camp and unmanufactured horror, Excision is a film that made me hate both it and myself while huddling low in my seat and, at times, diverting my eyes. And yet I believe it is this generation’s Carrie.