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Naked Breakfast
Good Morning. Hungry? Why not listen to William S. Burroughs reading from Naked Lunch? Or how about viewing some of the Naked Lunch manuscript? Or pictures of different editions of…
Morning Coffee
NY Times slide show on Conrad Gessner’s beastiaries. Anyone want to go live in a sweet cave house with me? Important advances in the field of robot journalism. I’ve often…
What I Saw: Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim
Three parts rave, two parts bourgeois museum gathering and one part carnival.
dislocate on Jim Shephard on John Hawkes
Following his Appreciation of John Hawkes, which we ran here on The Rumpus, dislocate interviews novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard about the piece, as well as the universal…
MoMA “Acquires” Intangible Object
As mentioned in this morning’s Morning Coffee, and in what might only be explained as a tribute to the Pop Art sensibility of reclaiming everyday objects, the @ symbol is…
King of a Hundred Horsemen
As with much French poetry, the idée fixe of King of a Hundred Horsemen concerns the problematics of desire, and several of the passages are so euphonic in the original…
Your Personal Clichés
Clichés are, by definition, old hat, but what if there’s a subtler version of the oh-so-enticing little literary buggers? Blogging for the Guardian, Peter Robbins pontificates on his own personal…
“Like a Criminal Rain Man”
Wired has published a fascinating article by Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman, “Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief.” The piece follows Gerald Blanchard, a scrawny…
Movies, Briefly: Surrogates (2009)
Surrogates feels like the least interesting film you could possibly make out of some very interesting material. It presents a world, adapted from the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and…