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Anisse Gross

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.

Features & Reviews, Reviews

Anisse Gross

Apr 26, 2017

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.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Jun 13, 2016

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.
Features & Reviews, Reviews

Anisse Gross

May 18, 2015

The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits

Anisse Gross reviews The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits today in Rumpus Books.
Features & Reviews, Interviews, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Oct 1, 2014

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.
Features & Reviews, Reviews

Anisse Gross

Sep 23, 2014

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.
Features & Reviews, Interviews, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Jan 28, 2014

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.”
Film, Other, Rumpus Original, Rumpus Originals

Anisse Gross

Dec 30, 2013

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.
Features & Reviews, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Dec 7, 2013

The Rumpus Review of White Girls by Hilton Als

Anisse Gross reviews Hilton Als’ WHITE GIRLS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
Film, Other, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Sep 25, 2013

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?
Film, Interviews, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Aug 27, 2013

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.
Film, Rumpus Original

Anisse Gross

Aug 21, 2013

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.
Film, Other

Anisse Gross

Jun 20, 2013

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 a cineaste and devoted SF-resident are below, but again they…