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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.
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Jonathan Lethem’s State of Cinema Address

  • Anisse Gross
  • June 14, 2012
One of the highlights for me of this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival was hearing novelist Jonathan Lethem deliver the festival’s annual State of Cinema Address. Lethem, an exuberant…
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We Need To Talk About Kevin Giveaway

  • Anisse Gross
  • May 29, 2012
UPDATE:  We have a winner!  Ryan Van Meter of San Francisco!  Congratulations! The recent film We Need To Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly is being…
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Walkabout, by James Vance Marshall

  • Anisse Gross
  • May 21, 2012
“It was silent and dark, and the children were afraid.” This the opening line of James Vance Marshall’s Walkabout, but isn’t it also the first line of all of our…
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The Rumpus Interview with Travis Mathews

  • Anisse Gross
  • April 11, 2012
Travis Mathews is a San Francisco based filmmaker whose movies focus on the emotional and intimate lives of gay men. With both a masters in Counseling Psychology and a background…
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Cold-Blooded and Bothered

  • Anisse Gross
  • March 20, 2012
Ellen Ullman’s throbbing new novel, By Blood, tells the story of an eavesdropping neighbor with a compulsive attention to sound.
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The Rumpus Review of Sleeping Beauty

  • Anisse Gross
  • January 30, 2012
The opening image is of a young girl, twenty going on twelve, pale enough to make you worry if she’s ever seen the sun. She’s sitting in an antiseptic lab…
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Wayward In The Light

  • Anisse Gross
  • October 18, 2011
Set in a dive bar, Joshua Mohr’s new novel, Damascus follows a weird gang as their lives crumble. Somehow it’s still life-affirming.
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James Franco Does His THING

  • Anisse Gross
  • June 7, 2011
If you don’t know by now, THE THING is an object-based quarterly, created by artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, where different artists create an object that incorporates text. All…
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Blood, Snow, Glory: Mountain Goats Meet Sir Arne’s Treasure

  • Anisse Gross
  • December 13, 2010
  I basically hurt myself with excitement when I read that the San Francisco Film Society was presenting Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 silent film classic Sir Arne’s Treasure with live musical…
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Two Calendars

  • Anisse Gross
  • November 24, 2010
Please enjoy the 2010 Miss TSA Calendar. After you’re done laughing, why not purchase a Rumpus Women Literary Calender?
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The Rumpus Interview With The Bots

  • Anisse Gross
  • October 12, 2010
The Bots are a band of two brothers, Mikaiah Lei, 17, and Anaiah Lei, 13, hailing from Glendale, California. Mikaiah sings and plays guitar while his younger brother Anaiah holds…
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Interview with Arthur Ganson – The Man Behind the Machines

  • Anisse Gross
  • August 31, 2010
Arthur Ganson is referred to as a kinetic sculptor, but I think his machines are more like spiritual beings.  He largely makes what’s known as Rube Goldberg machines, overly complex…
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