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The Last Bastion of Jim Crow
The Order of Myths is a film too nuanced to confront lynching directly, and too focused to make any easy statement about racism.
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Rumpus Book Reviews Since 1/20
The Boatloads by Dan Albergotti Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum American America by Ethan Canin The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck…
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A Questioning Faith
A Review of Dan Albergotti’s The Boatloads I have a special place in my heart for literature that juxtaposes the sacred and profane, that challenges perhaps the most successful meme ever to spring from the human brain: the belief that…
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Cory’s Yellow Chair
“I constructed this machine when, in my mind’s eye I saw my son’s little yellow chair explode with infinite speed, travel to the far reaches of the universe and slowly come to complete stillness. Then, beginning to collapse slowly at…
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Thinking Chair
“One day I found a loose rock with a flat face and the idea for ‘Thinking Chair’, a self-portrait of this experience, came into being.” —Arthur Ganson
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More Rules of Writing
In 2001, Elmore Leonard, famous for his crime fiction and suspense thrillers, wrote a spicy essay for The New York Times cataloging his suggestions for good writing, or, rather, he lists what we shouldn’t do. He continues his list of…
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BAD MOMMY BLOG: Happy Valentine’s Day—I Give You My Vagina
Within one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something to say, but all that comes to mind is: “So,…
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The (Old) New Leader
In January 2006, The New Leader stopped print publication, an early omen to The Christian Science Monitor. But this eighty-five-year old magazine continues to publish bimonthly in the form of PDF on their website. In its heyday, The New Leader…
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Machine with Wishbone
“Caught in a symbiotic relationship, both the wishbone and the machine are unable to manifest fully without the other. We drag our pasts with us and move according to unseen forces. More and more, we interface with the world through…
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Amy Crehore’s “Dreamgirls & Ukes”
Oregon-based artist Amy Crehore opens her solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, this Friday, February 13. Crehore has painted over a dozen antique ukuleles as part of this exhibit, most of which are from the 1920s, as well as…
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Machine with Abandoned Doll
“The intellect may be strong and the adult tormented as a result of it, but the child within dreams innocently.” —Arthur Ganson
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Devious Inc.
I hold certain truths to be self evident. Among these: independent film is good. Locally produced products are good. Rocking musicals are good. Shoes are good. The fetish industry is good. Based on adherence to these precepts, I was delighted…