At the Intersection of Rock n’ Roll and Lemony Snicket
John Wesley Harding teaches the Delta song to Daniel Handler before their big show at The Independent. Handler plays a mean accordian.
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“Are people who write entirely & absolutely selfish, darling?”
In the last Nation, Michelle Orange picks apart A Life in Letters, a book of Graham Greene’s correspondence edited by Richard Greene (no relation, really, she checked).
Florida’s Torture Chamber for Delinquent Boys
For 109 years, Florida has sent bad boys to the Florida School for Boys–for things like rape and assault, yes, but also for petty infractions like truancy or smoking in…
I Make-a-the-Music
The best game for Nintendo DS was not Nintendogs, as much as I liked that one. It was a little-known experimental music interface called Elektroplanton, with which you would use…
The Rumpus Interview with Sam Green
“When you think of the 60s, you generally think of nice smiling hippies, long hair, tie-dye, peace signs. These Weatherpeople were definitely not that. These Weatherpeople looked really HARD. It…
THE EYEBALL: Rashomon
One weird symptom of watching old movies, for me at least, is that I find myself imagining what the original audiences thought of them. I suppose this goes back to…
Your Money or Your Life
Denis Johnson strips bare and shucks the pump in his fast-moving literary noir, Nobody Move.