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Disinclined to Mislead Anyone
Lantz forces us again and again to reexamine the way we see through such juxtaposition of facts as well as through the voices of characters who search for and experience…
Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #3: The Space Between
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Flight Attendant Montine McLeod (Academy Awarded nominated Melissa Leo) finds herself the unlikely guardian of Omar (Anthony Keyvan), a Pakistani boy…
“Unifying Theme”
“Grann’s theme is the quest for darkness in its broadest form. Sometimes that quest is literal, as when he follows two men who spend their lives probing the ocean’s depths…
“To me it just seems like a bunch of people calling one another fancy names.”
Jimmy Chen at HTMLGIANT admits that he gets “confused by all the kinds of editors there are.” So he has made a list; a hilarious list in which he guesses…
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann compiles a decade of investigative profiles from The New Yorker and elsewhere in a compelling study of the dark side.
SFIFF53: Dispatch #4, Opening Night, Micmacs
Coverage of the San Francisco International Film Festival by Rumpus Film editor Jeremy Hatch. This is my third year covering film in San Francisco, but this opening night, which took…
Kyle Kinane’s “Ramblings Made Beautiful by Zak Smith”
Rumpus contributor, author, artist, and porn performer Zak Smith has taken the words of Rumpus contributor and comedian Kyle Kinane and made them, to quote Kinane, “beautiful.” View the piece…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #33
THE DENTAL FLOSS SAMPLE MY BUS DRIVER GAVE ME ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing…
“Papers, please.”
Arizona News Links
A roundup of articles related to Arizona’s new draconian immigration law. “Wasn’t the system of internal passports one of the most distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union and…