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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 I read for the same reasons. But movies, I feel,…
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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 represents a large proportion of the population, you’re likely in…
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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.
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The Rumpus Partly Visual Interview with Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
At what point does the viewer start seducing the artwork?
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Chaos
Sometimes, reading can feel like being on a roller-coaster–one of the classically vertiginous stomach-hurtling superstructures, like Coney Island’s Cyclone, say–but, of course, better. “High Compression: Information, Intimacy, and the Entropy of Life” by Brian Christian, an essay in the latest…
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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 (surprisingly unrelated). 20 Fascinating Ancient Maps. Here are those pictures…
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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 tools of music DJs — turntables, scratching, sampling, live looping,…
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Mountain Valley, Southwestern Virginia
Josh Weil, author of The New Valley, has an essay in Granta 107 (Summer 2009) entitled “One Ridge Over.” The beautiful piece is about living alone in rural Virginia and is available online. Granta also posted a few of Weil’s…
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Hollywood & Western
“Charles Bukowski gives a tour of Hollywood and Western, highlighting his favorite bars, hangouts, hookers and dope-dealers.” From The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985), by Barbet Schroeder.
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The Rumpus Interview With Sophia Raday
Sophia Raday’s new book, Love In Condition Yellow–A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage, is a beautifully rendered, often hilarious, account of how opposites can attract, and maybe even should. It’s also insightful meditation on America after 9/11 as it struggles…
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The Age of Orphans
Laleh Khadivi’s novel traces the history of Iran through the brutal journey of a young Kurd
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Get Your War On… Jamba Juice (Update)
Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable creator David Rees has been ripped off in a major way by Jamba Juice’s latest ad campaign. To read our first post on the story, click here. More news…