A Portrait of the Writing Process: Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood
Chew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
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Anisse Gross
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Anisse Gross is a writer, editor, artist and question asker living in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Believer, Lucky Peach, Buzzfeed, Brooklyn Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She openly welcomes correspondence, friendship, surprises and paid work.
The Rumpus Review of The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky
If we’re honest with ourselves, the great loves of our lives are often platonic.
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
Anisse Gross reviews The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Page McBee
The Rumpus talks to contributor Thomas Page McBee about his new book, Man Alive, heteronormativity, getting mugged, living in New York City, and what it really means to be a man.
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others
Anisse Gross reviews Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Sharpton & 639 Others today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Interview with Jerry Stahl
Writer and Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl sits down for a candid chat about memoir, novels, shame, parenthood, being pigeonholed, and managing "the neat trick of being an outsider in all genres."
Homo Homini Lupus Est: The Rumpus Review of The Wolf of Wall Street
This movie is not a critique. It's an advertisement for capitalism and its salacious, delectable greeds.
The Rumpus Review of White Girls by Hilton Als
Anisse Gross reviews Hilton Als' WHITE GIRLS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
Reelings #7: Blue Jasmine
Why is Woody Allen choosing to make a movie about this particular character? Is it to support a modern fable of our economic fall from grace? Or is there something more insidious at play?
The Rumpus Interview with Brian Lindstrom
We talk to filmmaker Brian Lindstrom about his latest project, Alien Boy, the creative process behind documentary filmmaking, and his personal and artistic relationship with his wife, Cheryl Strayed.
Reelings #6: Interior. Leather Bar.
Interior. Leather Bar. is actually less a tribute to the lost footage from Cruising, and more of a docufiction about the nature of sexuality, heteronormativity, and the representation of both in mainstream films.
The Rumpus Picks for 2013 Frameline Film Festival
It’s that time of year again—SF gets all abuzz as Frameline Film Festival, the oldest film festival dedicated to LGBT programming, crushes it with an amazing roster of films. My picks as…