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Did you miss Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on Forum with Michael Krasny this morning? Fear not, you can listen to the excellent interview in its entirety (including when Krasny talks…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #18: Burning Bright
My friend Eric brought me a present from his latest trip to Africa: a margarine-yellow soccer jersey with racy red stripes that slash down from the shoulders.
Lit Drift’s Free Book Friday
Lit Drift has another Free Book Friday contest coming up. This week they’re giving away a copy of Pasha Malla’s The Withdrawal Method. In the Rumpus review of Malla’s book…
Rushdie on Film and the Novel
“The movies are now old enough — we’ve had a century of movies — that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been…
Erwin Blumenfeld’s Frozen Emulsion
“Erwin Blumenfeld‘s passion for technical audacity is perfectly exemplified in [this] Kodachrome shot… it was made in violation of Eastman’s exact and careful directions. Color-temperature theories were completely ignored. Yet…
Morning Coffee
The wall of knowledge. On the more misconceived Popular Mechanics ideas. P. William’s “The Finishing Touch” is exactly the kind of performance art we can get behind. Nikola Tesla’s Christmas…
The Velvet Underground’s Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion
“They can’t make us wait in lines,” my friend said when we were told the doors weren’t open yet. “This is punk rock.”
Thoughts on The Salt Smugglers at TQC
“Nerval is remembered as a minor literary figure, an eccentric who walked his pet lobster on a ribbon in the Palais Royal, gabbled his poetry in doorways, read at night…
Artaud’s Tableaux
“Cliches anonymes, Six tableaux vivants realises a partir du Moine, de Lewis” Six tableaux vivants for The Monk by Matthew Lewis, a book Artaud translated and abridged.