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Chris Vaughan

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Chris Vaughan has written about film and books for the Rumpus, Bookslut and other venues. His fiction has appeared in The Warwick Review, The Lifted Brow, Epiphany Magazine and Ambit.
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Hunters and the Hunted: The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai

  • Chris Vaughan
  • July 6, 2017
Vastness does not always mean an abyss.
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Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson

  • Chris Vaughan
  • February 9, 2017
Chris Vaughan reviews Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson today in Rumpus Books.
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Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai

  • Chris Vaughan
  • April 14, 2015
Chris Vaughan reviews Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai today in Rumpus Books.
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In The House Upon The Dirt Between The Lake And The Woods
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In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

  • Chris Vaughan
  • June 17, 2013
Werner Herzog explained that what Kinski saw as sensuality in the jungle (during the filming of Fitzcarraldo), Herzog thought of as “overwhelming and collective murder.” We begin In the House…
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Short and Sound

  • Chris Vaughan
  • October 24, 2012
Short film has traditionally never had the gift of longevity. Cinema gave short film a mosquito-span life and while DVD gave them an extension, they were ultimately relegated to wallow…
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The Rumpus Interview with Matt Bell

  • Chris Vaughan
  • April 26, 2012
“Domina, Doreen, Dorma,” published in Everyday Genius, was the first of the stories which make up Cataclysm Baby to surface. Since then, what eventually became a novella puzzled itself out…
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