The Rumpus Interview with Carlos Cuarón
During an assembly-line interview process last week, I sat with writer and director Carlos Cuarón to talk about his new film, Rudo y Cursi. We met up at a self-described…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview with Dan Baum
Over the past few days, ex-New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum has received a lot of attention by rehashing the details of his dismissal in 140-character Twitter missives. I spoke…
Blog-on-Blog Crime
The new “ladyblog” Double X, an offshoot of the online magazine Slate, just launched in Beta, with former Jezebel editor Jessica Grose one of the women at the helm. Oddly…
I Openly Love Ayn Rand, by Elissa Bassist
[A father talking to his son]: “You’re in college now . . . I’m going to have to keep this Ayn Rand book. I’m sorry, but you’re just too old…
#danbaum @The_Rumpus: Reactions
Following Stephen Elliot’s post http://bit.ly/32Mt06, I began covering Dan Baum’s Twitter story relatively late in the game, three days after his first tweet about being fired from The New Yorker.…
The Last Book I Loved: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
I’m not sure why it took me a bit to get into Donald Antrim’s Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, because the book begins with the quartering of the…
Maps and Legends
“Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere in your head… and you are just spending your entire life figuring out…
In The Flesh Reading Series
Rachel Kramer Bussel has written a sex column for the Village Voice, edited a number of anthologies including the Best Sex Writing series, Spanked: Red Cheeked Erotica, He’s On Top,…
Fade to Orange: “Do I Know You?” and Other Impossible Questions
Recently I rewatched a great film by Lynn Shelton called My Effortless Brilliance. I enjoyed it so much the first time that I wanted to show it to all of…
To Sit, to Stand, to Write
Ever since Nietzsche’s declaration, there has been some disagreement among writers, thinkers, doctors, and designers as to whether inspiration and creativity come from being seated and quiescent, or from being…