Wallace Shawn On Writing About Sex
“Various people who have liked me or cared about me — people who have believed in my promise as a writer — have hinted to me at various times in…
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When The Rent’s Due Soon
“After opening my post on many mornings, I indulge in a few minutes of anguish and muted screams, then devote the next hour or more, if necessary, to tackling the…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #19
I will remind you that you were not born into this world to suffer. Nobody is, actually.
Introducing Emily Hahn
“Whenever I think of the Christmas season I spent in the eastern reaches of the Belgian Congo, in 1932, I experience a floating sense of unreality. A number of questions…
By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
PART I: WHY RUMSFELD, WHY THIS BOOK? Donald Rumsfeld is my grandmother.
David Cronenberg’s First Feature Film
I watch movies so people will show me the things that make me flinch, question myself, curse the heavens, and want to enroll in primal scream therapy. I don’t think…
Immigrants Make For Safe Cities
“If you want to find a safe city, first determine the size of the immigrant population,” says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. “If the immigrant community…
How to Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program
Give us the reddened stubble in the crease of a debutante’s groin, or the minute trembling of a banker’s underlip.
The Rumpus Partly Visual Interview with Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
At what point does the viewer start seducing the artwork?
Morning Coffee
today is going to be one of those days. Sometimes life seems pretty hard, but at least demons aren’t coming up from the ground. See also: THE DOOR TO HELL…
Eclectic Method: Pushing the Frontier of Video Remix
It’s hard to know where to start talking about a club act as innovative as Eclectic Method. They’re video DJs, a rare breed of performance artist, who have taken the…