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HORN! REVIEWS: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
Rumpus Book Club member and artist extraordinaire Kevin Thomas has reviewed last month’s book club selection, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. As usual, he did his review in the form of a comic. Also as usual, it is fantastic.…
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Book Club Member John Brown reviews The Instructions
The Instructions is this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection. Published by McSweeney’s the book is 1,024 pages. John Brown was probably the first member of the book club to finish it.
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What We Hack Up We Can Choke Down
It is Zweig’s essential Vermont-y-ness that makes her indispensable. The charm and beauty of those green mountains and isolation and mud seasons of that terrain is applied thickly in these poems.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is hard to beat flight pattern photography sometimes. Mondo-Bloggo has kindly reprinted the entirety of their recent post on 1950s college kids flying kites, and we are all better for it. Novelty architecture happens from time to time. Incidentally,…
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10/40/70 #25: The Hitch-Hiker
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino (1953):
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Dickens in the Third World
”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.” George Packer tells the fascinating story of Somerset, “a toothpick-thin, boisterous young…
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The Cloud Corporation
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s September pick, Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, has been reviewed by The New Yorker. We’re not saying it’s solely because the collection was a Rumpus pick… but we’re not not saying that either.
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Tao Lin and Emily Gould: The Sam and Diane of the Youtube Generation?
Today over at The Awl, Emily Gould interviews Tao Lin for her awesome Cooking the Books series. The salad they make looks pretty tasty, but the real reason to watch the video is the undeniable tension between Lin and Gould.…